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Orfelia

Insecta - Diptera - Keroplatidae

Taxonomy
Orfelia was named by Costa (1857). It is extant.

It was assigned to Orfeliini by Solórzano Kraemer (2007); and to Keroplatinae by Mantič et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Orfelia Costa
2007Orfelia Solórzano Kraemer p. 62
2020Orfelia Mantič et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyKeroplatidaeRondani 1856
subfamilyKeroplatinaeRondani 1856
genusOrfeliaCosta 1857

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.

G. Orfelia Costa 1857
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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: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.03000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico O. sp. 1, O. sp. 2 (21977)