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Archiculicoides acraorum

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Protoculicoides acraorum was named by Borkent (2000). Its type specimen is AMNH JS 84 BM 71, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

It was recombined as Archiculicoides acraorum by Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018), Borkent (2019), Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Protoculicoides acraorum Borkent p. 367 figs. 4f-i
2013Archiculicoides acraorum Borkent p. 172
2018Archiculicoides acraorum Szadziewski p. 221
2019Archiculicoides acraorum Borkent p. 8 fig. 4A
2020Archiculicoides acraorum Borkent and Dominiak p. 216

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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
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
genusArchiculicoides
speciesacraorum()

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.

†Archiculicoides acraorum Borkent 2000
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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: Early/Lower Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian125.77 - 121.4Lebanon Protoculicoides acraorum (type locality: 122359)