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Leptosyna fastosa

Insecta - Diptera - Cecidomyiidae

Taxonomy
Leptosyna fastosa was named by Fedotova and Perkovsky (2009). Its type specimen is BMB 265, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Booth Museum BMB coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2009Leptosyna fastosa Fedotova and Perkovsky p. 1155 figs. Pl 7, figs 3a-c; text-fig 30
2014Leptosyna fastosa Gagné and Jaschhof p. 49

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyCecidomyiidae
subfamilyWinnertziinae
tribeHeteropezini
genusLeptosynaKieffer 1894
speciesfastosa

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.

†Leptosyna fastosa Fedotova and Perkovsky 2009
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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 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Leptosyna fastosa (type locality: 140311)