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Chelipoda vaga

Insecta - Diptera - Empididae

Taxonomy
Lepidomyia vaga was named by Meunier (1908). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Chelipoda vaga by Evenhuis (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Lepidomyia vaga Meunier p. 106
1994Chelipoda vaga Evenhuis

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
superfamilyEmpidoideaLatreille 1804
familyEmpididaeLatreille 1804
subfamilyEmpidinaeLatreille 1804
tribeChelipodiniHendel 1936
genusChelipodaMacquart 1823
speciesvaga()

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.

Chelipoda vaga Meunier 1908
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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) Lepidomyia vaga (123927)