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Forcipomyiini

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Forcipomyiini was named by Lenz (1934). It is extant. Its type is Forcipomyia.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Forcipomyiinae by Borkent (2013).

It was assigned to Forcipomyiinae by Szadziewski and Grogan (1998), Borkent and Dominiak (2020), Szadziewski et al. (2021) and Borkent et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1934Forcipomyiini Lenz
1998Forcipomyiini Szadziewski and Grogan p. 264
2020Forcipomyiini Borkent and Dominiak p. 56
2021Forcipomyiini Szadziewski et al. p. 441
2022Forcipomyiini Borkent et al. p. 56

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyForcipomyiinaeLenz 1934
tribeForcipomyiiniLenz 1934
tribeForcipomyiiniLenz 1934

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. Forcipomyiini Lenz 1934
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G. Atrichopogon Kieffer 1906
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†Atrichopogon dominicanus Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
†Atrichopogon eocenicus Szadziewski 1988
Invalid names: Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) Kieffer 1906 [invalid subgroup]
G. Forcipomyia Meigen 1818
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Subg. Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) Kieffer 1921
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†Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) americana Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
†Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) woodruffi Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
Subg. Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) Kieffer 1917
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†Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) antilleana Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
†Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) chrysosuccinea Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
†Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) domibicolor Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
†Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) lepidosuccinea Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
Subg. Forcipomyia (Synthyridomyia) Saunders 1957
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†Forcipomyia (Synthyridomyia) tertiaricola Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
Subg. Forcipomyia (Thyridomyia) Saunders 1925
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†Forcipomyia (Thyridomyia) frutetosuccinea Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
†Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata Szadziewski 1988
†Forcipomyia krzeminskii Szadziewski 1988
†Forcipomyia kulickae Szadziewski 1988
†Forcipomyia nadicola Szadziewski 2013
Invalid names: Amberaspinus Evenhuis 1994 [synonym]
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 Ypresian to the top of the Burdigalian or 56.00000 to 15.97000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (35 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8China (Liaoning) Aspinus orientalus (124530)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8India (Gujarat) Forcipomyia sp. (124463 183742 183743)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Russian Federation Forcipomyia nadicola (151918) Forcipomyia sp. indet., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp. (107340)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Denmark Forcipomyia spp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp. B, Forcipomyia uncula, Forcipomyia piriformis, Forcipomyia henningseni, Forcipomyia gedanicola, Forcipomyia lyneborgi, Forcipomyia succinea, Forcipomyia eophytoheleana, Forcipomyia krzeminskii (123762)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Ceratopogon turbinatus, Ceratopogon unculus, Ceratopogon piriformis (123927) Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia uncula, Forcipomyia pseudomicrohelea (123221) Forcipomyia spp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia piriformis (123962) Forcipomyia spp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia turbinata, Forcipomyia uncula, Forcipomyia krzeminskii (123993)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine Forcipomyia sp. (113621 122996 122997)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp. (154301) Forcipomyia spp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp. A, Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia turbinata, Forcipomyia uncula, Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia piriformis, Atrichopogon eocenicus, Forcipomyia eocostata, Forcipomyia gedanicola, Forcipomyia krzeminskii, Forcipomyia kulickae, Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata (120813) Forcipomyia spp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia uncula, Forcipomyia berendti, Forcipomyia gedanicola, Forcipomyia eophytoheleana, Forcipomyia eotrichoheleana (109625)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia miocaenica, Forcipomyia tuberculosa, Forcipomyia gedanicola, Forcipomyia subgedanicola, Forcipomyia unculiformis, Forcipomyia succinicola (129227) Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia tuberculosa, Forcipomyia bifidicola (129228)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Atrichopogon brunnescens (122010)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico (Chiapas) Forcipomyia sp. (106432 124467 124474 140215 140217 140833)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp. 1, Forcipomyia sp. 2 (21977)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Ethiopia Forcipomyia rasnitsyni (222682)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97New Zealand (Otago) Forcipomyia sp. (191650)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia antilleana, Forcipomyia chrysosuccinea, Forcipomyia domibicolor (125970) Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp. (123393) Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Atrichopogon sp., Atrichopogon dominicanus, Forcipomyia grimaldii, Forcipomyia americana, Forcipomyia woodruffi, Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia antilleana, Forcipomyia domibicolor, Forcipomyia lepidosuccinea, Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia frutetosuccinea, Forcipomyia tertiaricola, Forcipomyia sp. (122473) Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia antilleana (140835) Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia fusiparamera, Forcipomyia grimaldii, Forcipomyia woodruffi, Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia antilleana, Forcipomyia domibicolor (123857) Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia grimaldii, Forcipomyia woodruffi, Forcipomyia sp., Forcipomyia antilleana, Forcipomyia domibicolor, Forcipomyia sp. (122982)