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Epidapus

Insecta - Diptera - Sciaridae

Taxonomy

Epidapus was named by Haliday (1851). It is extant.

It was assigned to Mycetophilidae by Aldrich (1905); to Sciaridae by Röschmann and Mohrig (1995), Mohrig and Röschmann (2005); and to Cratyninae by Shin et al. (2013).

Species

E. (Epidapus), E. (Pseudoaptanogyna), E. (Vimmeria), E. adstrictosetus, E. longisetus, E. macrospinatus, E. microspinus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1851	Epidapus Haliday
1905	Epidapus Aldrich p. 148
1995	Epidapus Röschmann and Mohrig p. 156
2005	Epidapus Mohrig and Röschmann p. 344
2013	Epidapus Shin et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
infraorder	Bibionomorpha
superfamily	Sciaroidea
family	Sciaridae	()
subfamily	Cratyninae
genus	Epidapus	Haliday 1851

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.

G. Epidapus Haliday 1851

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Subg. Epidapus (Epidapus) Haliday 1851

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†Epidapus (Epidapus) brevihalteratus Röschmann and Mohrig 1995

†Epidapus (Epidapus) palaeogracilis Roschmann and Mohrig 1993

†Epidapus (Epidapus) unistylatus Röschmann and Mohrig 1995

Subg. Epidapus (Pseudoaptanogyna) Vimmer 1926

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†Epidapus (Pseudoaptanogyna) primarius Röschmann and Mohrig 1995

†Epidapus (Pseudoaptanogyna) succinellus Mohrig and Röschmann 1994

Subg. Epidapus (Vimmeria) Kratochvil 1936

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†Epidapus (Vimmeria) menzeli Röschmann and Mohrig 1994

†Epidapus adstrictosetus Mohrig and Röschmann 2005

†Epidapus longisetus Mohrig and Röschmann 2005

†Epidapus macrospinatus Mohrig and Röschmann 2005

†Epidapus microspinus Mohrig and Röschmann 2005

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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Langhian or 37.71000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Poland	E. succinellus (109625)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Germany (Halle)	E. brevihalteratus, E. unistylatus, E. menzeli, E. palaeogracilis, E. menzeli (129227) E. primarius (139214)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation	E. menzeli (123419)
Burdigalian - Langhian	20.45 - 13.82	Dominican Republic	E. microspinus (122982) E. microspinus, E. macrospinatus, E. adstrictosetus, E. longisetus (122472)