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Archiaustroconops cretaceous

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Austroconops cretaceous was named by Szadziewski (1996). Its type specimen is SMNS C31/18, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

It was recombined as Archiaustroconops cretaceous by Borkent (2000), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018), Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Austroconops cretaceous Szadziewski p. 36 figs. 8a-e
1997Austroconops cretaceous Borkent and Wirth p. 21
2000Archiaustroconops cretaceous Borkent p. 375 fig. 10k
2013Archiaustroconops cretaceous Borkent p. 11
2018Archiaustroconops cretaceous Szadziewski p. 220
2019Austroconops cretaceous Borkent p. 39 fig. 5D
2020Archiaustroconops cretaceous Borkent and Dominiak p. 35

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—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
subfamilyLeptoconopinaeNoe 1907
genusArchiaustroconops
speciescretaceous()

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.

†Archiaustroconops cretaceous Szadziewski 1996
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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: Early/Lower Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian125.77 - 121.4Lebanon Austroconops cretaceous (type locality: 124276)