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Boreofairchildia scheveni

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Nemapalpus scheveni was named by Wagner (2006). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Scheven coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Boreofairchildia scheveni by Wagner and Stuckenberg (2016) and Wagner (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Nemapalpus scheveni Wagner p. 91 figs. 30-39
2016Boreofairchildia scheveni Wagner and Stuckenberg p. 163
2017Boreofairchildia scheveni Wagner p. 110

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilyBruchomyiinae
genusBoreofairchildia
speciesscheveni()

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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Nemapalpus scheveni (type locality: 124846)