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Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) graciosa

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Dicranomyia graciosa was named by Meunier (1916). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Limonia graciosa by Alexander (1931); it was recombined as Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) graciosa by Kania (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Dicranomyia graciosa Meunier p. 489 fig. 28,29
1931Limonia graciosa Alexander p. 39 figs. 36, 40
2000Dicranomyia graciosa Krzemiński p. 348 fig. 1
2014Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) graciosa Kania p. 755 figs. 5A-C

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyLimoniidae
subfamilyLimoniinae
genusDicranomyia
subgenusDicranomyia
speciesgraciosa()

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.

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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 (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Dicranomyia graciosa (123419)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Dicranomyia graciosa (110737 120813)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Dicranomyia graciosa (type locality: 123927)