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Culicoides eoselficus

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides eoselficus was named by Szadziewski (1988). Its type specimen is MZW 5205, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Culicoides eoselficus Szadziewski p. 43 figs. 56-60
1997Culicoides eoselficus Borkent and Wirth p. 67
2013Culicoides eoselficus Borkent p. 81
2018Culicoides eoselficus Pielowska et al. p. 241
2018Culicoides eoselficus Szadziewski p. 225
2020Culicoides eoselficus Borkent and Dominiak p. 141

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCulicoidini
genusCulicoidesLatreille 1809
specieseoselficus

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.

Culicoides eoselficus Szadziewski 1988
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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 (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Culicoides eoselficus (type locality: 120813)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Denmark Culicoides eoselficus (123762)