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Diaphorus fernandi

Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae

Taxonomy

Diaphorus fernandi was named by Meuffels and Grootaert (1999). It is an inclusion in amber.

Synonyms

Dolichopus soccatus was named by Meunier (1899). 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 Diaphorus soccatus by Evenhuis (1994); it was replaced with Diaphorus fernandi by Meuffels and Grootaert (1999).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1899	Dolichopus soccatus Meunier p. 179
1994	Diaphorus soccatus Evenhuis p. 361
1999	Diaphorus fernandi Meuffels and Grootaert p. 290

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
—	Heterodactyla
—	Eremoneura
superfamily	Empidoidea	Latreille 1804
family	Dolichopodidae	Latreille 1809
subfamily	Diaphorinae	Schiner 1864
genus	Diaphorus	Meigen 1824
species	fernandi

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.

†Diaphorus fernandi Meuffels and Grootaert 1999

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Invalid names: Dolichopus soccatus Meunier 1899 [replaced]

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: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Dolichopus soccatus (123927)