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Minyohelea minuta

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Lebanoconops minutus was named by Szadziewski (1996). Its type specimen is SMNS C32/67, 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 Minyohelea minuta by Borkent (2000), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018); it was misspelled as Minyohelea minutus by Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Lebanoconops minutus Szadziewski p. 43 figs. 15a-g
1997Lebanoconops minutus Borkent and Wirth p. 21
2000Minyohelea minuta Borkent p. 387 figs. 19a-e
2013Minyohelea minuta Borkent p. 16
2018Minyohelea minuta Szadziewski p. 221
2020Minyohelea minutus Borkent and Dominiak p. 40

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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
genusMinyohelea
speciesminuta()

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.

†Minyohelea minuta 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 (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian125.77 - 121.4Lebanon Lebanoconops minutus (type locality: 124276) Minyohelea minuta (122359)