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Culicoides tenuipennis

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides tenuipennis was named by Statz (1944). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Statz Collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - small shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1944Culicoides tenuipennis Statz p. 147 figs. Pl VII fig 50; Pl IX fig 71
1997Culicoides tenuipennis Borkent and Wirth p. 83
2013Culicoides tenuipennis Borkent p. 102
2020Culicoides tenuipennis Borkent and Dominiak p. 142

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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
speciestenuipennis

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 tenuipennis Statz 1944
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Culicoides tenuipennis (type locality: 122010)