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Gracillarioidea

Insecta - Lepidoptera

Taxonomy
Gracillarioidea was named by Stainton (1854). It is extant.

It was assigned to Ditrysia by van Nieukerken et al. (2011) and Sohn et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Gracillarioidea Stainton p. 193
2011Gracillarioidea van Nieukerken et al. p. 213
2012Gracillarioidea Sohn et al. p. 38

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
RankNameAuthor
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Metamphiesmenoptera
—Euamphiesmenoptera
—Panendymenoptera
—Endymenoptera
—Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
—Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
—CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
—EulepidopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Euheteroneura
—DitrysiaBorner 1925
superfamilyGracillarioidea
superfamilyGracillarioidea

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.

Superfm. Gracillarioidea Stainton 1854
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Fm. Bucculatricidae Fracker 1915
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G. Bucculatrix Zeller 1839
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†Bucculatrix platani Kozlov 1988
†Bucculatrix rycki Fischer 2015
Fm. Gracillariidae Stainton 1854
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Subfm. Gracillariinae Stainton 1854
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G. †Gracillariites Kozlov 1987
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†Gracillariites mixtus Kozlov 1987
Subfm. Lithocolletinae Stainton 1854
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G. Phyllonorycter Hübner 1822
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†Phyllonorycter inopinata Fischer 2021
Subfm. Phyllocnistinae Herrich-Schäffer 1857
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G. Phyllocnistis Zeller 1848
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†Phyllocnistis cretacea Fischer 2021
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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Turonian to the top of the Priabonian or 93.90000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Phyllocnistis cretacea (212083 220903)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Kazakhstan Bucculatrix platani (103274)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Lithuania Gracillariites lithuanicus (123977)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Bucculatrix rycki (140452) Gracillariites mixtus (123978) Phyllonorycter inopinata (123439)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) Lepidoptera sp.H (123959)