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Ceratopogon spiniger

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Ceratopogon spiniger was named by Loew (1850). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

It was recombined as Serromyia spinigera by Szadziewski (1988), Borkent and Bissett (1990), Szadziewski (1993), Borkent and Wirth (1997), Sontag and Szadziewski (2011), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018), Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Ceratopogon spiniger Loew p. 30
1904Ceratopogon elongatus Meunier p. 242
1904Ceratopogon spiniger Meunier p. 243
1988Serromyia spinigera Szadziewski p. 140 figs. 417-427
1990Serromyia spinigera Borkent and Bissett p. 207
1993Serromyia spinigera Szadziewski p. 635
1997Serromyia spinigera Borkent and Wirth p. 106
2011Serromyia spinigera Sontag and Szadziewski p. 791
2013Serromyia spinigera Borkent p. 131
2018Serromyia spinigera Szadziewski p. 226
2020Serromyia spinigera Borkent and Dominiak p. 171

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCeratopogonini
genusCeratopogon
speciesspiniger

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.

†Ceratopogon spiniger Loew 1850
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Ceratopogon spiniger (123927)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Poland Ceratopogon spiniger (type locality: 109625)