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Culicoides canadensis

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Atrichopogon canadensis was named by Boesel (1937). Its type specimen is ROM 35, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.

It was recombined as Culicoides canadensis by Borkent (1995), Borkent and Wirth (1997), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Atrichopogon canadensis Boesel p. 47 fig. 8B
1995Culicoides canadensis Borkent p. 58 figs. Pl 1, fig 10; pl 6, fig 9
1997Culicoides canadensis Borkent and Wirth p. 64
2013Culicoides canadensis Borkent p. 77
2018Culicoides canadensis Szadziewski p. 224
2020Culicoides canadensis Borkent and Dominiak p. 141

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCulicoidini
genusCulicoidesLatreille 1809
speciescanadensis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Culicoides canadensis Boesel 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Atrichopogon canadensis (type locality: 122356) Culicoides canadensis (122353 122354)
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Culicoides canadensis (122383 122384)