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Gerontini

Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae

Taxonomy
Gerontini was named by Hesse (1938). It is extant.

It was assigned to Toxophorinae by Evenhuis and Greathead (1999), Li and Yeates (2019).

Subtaxa
Geron

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Gerontini Hesse
1999Gerontini Evenhuis and Greathead
2019Gerontini Li and Yeates p. 866

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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
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
familyBombyliidae()
subfamilyToxophorinae
tribeGerontiniHesse 1938
tribeGerontiniHesse 1938

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.

Tr. Gerontini Hesse 1938
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G. Geron Meigen 1820
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†Geron figuratus Theobald 1937
†Geron oligocaenicus Timon-David 1944
†Geron platysoma Cockerell 1915
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 Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Oligocene or 37.00000 to 23.04000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Geron platysoma (113749)
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04France (Bouches-du-Rhone) Geron figuratus (122464)