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Aetheapnomyia hoffeinsorum

Insecta - Diptera - Culicidae

Taxonomy
Aedes (Finlaya) hoffeinsorum was named by Szadziewski (1998). Its type specimen is Christel and Hans Hoffeins, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Aetheapnomyia.

It was recombined as Aetheapnomyia hoffeinsorum by Harbach and Greenwalt (2012), Pielowska et al. (2018), Zakrzewska et al. (2025).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Aedes (Finlaya) hoffeinsorum Szadziewski p. 235 figs. 1-3
2012Aetheapnomyia hoffeinsorum Harbach and Greenwalt p. 33
2018Aetheapnomyia hoffeinsorum Pielowska et al. p. 242
2025Aetheapnomyia hoffeinsorum Zakrzewska et al. p. 177 figs. 1-4

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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
superfamilyCulicoidea
familyCulicidae
subfamilyCulicinae()
tribeAediniNeveu-Lemaire 1902
genusAetheapnomyia
specieshoffeinsorum()

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.

Aetheapnomyia hoffeinsorum Szadziewski 1998
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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 - 33.9Ukraine Aetheapnomyia hoffeinsorum (275551)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation Aedes hoffeinsorum (type locality: 123419)