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Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) protorotunda

Insecta - Diptera - Sciaridae

Taxonomy
Trichosia (Leptosciarella) protorotunda was named by Mohrig and Röschmann (1994). Its type specimen is GZG Z3689, an exoskeleton, and 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 Leptosciarella protorotunda by Menzel and Mohrig (2000); it was recombined as Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) protorotunda by Mohrig and Röschmann (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Trichosia (Leptosciarella) protorotunda Mohrig and Röschmann p. 94 fig. 7
2000Leptosciarella protorotunda Menzel and Mohrig p. 353
2005Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) protorotunda Mohrig and Röschmann p. 324

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familySciaridae()
subfamilySciarinae
genusLeptosciarella(Tuomikoski 1960)
subgenusLeptosciarellaTuomikoski 1960
speciesprotorotunda()

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.

Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) protorotunda Mohrig and Röschmann 1994
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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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Trichosia protorotunda (type locality: 123927)