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Ceratopogon ritzkowskii

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Ceratopogon ritzkowskii was named by Szadziewski (1988). Its type specimen is MZW 18553a, 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
1988Ceratopogon ritzkowskii Szadziewski p. 78 figs. 175-182
1995Ceratopogon ritzkowskii Borkent and Grogan p. 100
1997Ceratopogon ritzkowskii Borkent and Wirth p. 97
2013Ceratopogon ritzkowskii Borkent p. 120
2018Ceratopogon ritzkowskii Szadziewski p. 225
2020Ceratopogon ritzkowskii Borkent and Dominiak p. 159

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—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
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCeratopogonini
genusCeratopogon
speciesritzkowskii

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.

†Ceratopogon ritzkowskii 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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Denmark Ceratopogon ritzkowskii (123762)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Poland Ceratopogon ritzkowskii (type locality: 120813)