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Acutiforcipia cuspilonga

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Taxonomy
Acutiforcipia cuspilonga was named by Seredszus and Wichard (2009). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Zoologische Staatsammlung, Munich), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Acutiforcipia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2009Acutiforcipia cuspilonga Seredszus and Wichard p. 246 figs. 10.43, 10.44
2019Acutiforcipia cuspilonga Ashe and O'Connor p. 132
2024Acutiforcipia cuspilonga Ashe et al. p. 61

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyChironomidaeMacquart 1838
subfamilyOrthocladiinaeLenz 1921
genusAcutiforcipia
speciescuspilonga

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.

†Acutiforcipia cuspilonga Seredszus and Wichard 2009
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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 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Acutiforcipia cuspilonga (124468 type locality: 145846 157348)