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Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata was named by Szadziewski (1988). Its type specimen is MZW 19242, 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.

It was recombined as Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) eobreviflagellata by Borkent and Wirth (1997), Borkent (2013) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata Szadziewski p. 220 figs. 703-708
1997Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) eobreviflagellata Borkent and Wirth p. 34
2013Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) eobreviflagellata Borkent p. 35
2018Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata Szadziewski p. 225
2020Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) eobreviflagellata Borkent and Dominiak p. 76

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

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.

†Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata 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 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata (type locality: 120813)