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Gerontodacus punctus

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Protoculicoides punctus was named by Borkent (2000). Its type specimen is AMNH L-AE 115, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Bchare Mountain (AMNH collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

It was recombined as Archiculicoides punctus by Szadziewski et al. (2016), Szadziewski (2018); it was recombined as Gerontodacus punctus by Borkent (2019), Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Protoculicoides punctus Borkent p. 368 figs. 5a-e, 6a-i
2013Protoculicoides punctus Borkent p. 172
2016Archiculicoides punctus Szadziewski et al. p. 5
2018Archiculicoides punctus Szadziewski p. 221
2019Gerontodacus punctus Borkent p. 18 figs. 3A, 4E, 6B, 9G
2020Gerontodacus punctus Borkent and Dominiak p. 216

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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
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
genusGerontodacus
speciespunctus()

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.

†Gerontodacus punctus Borkent 2000
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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: Early/Lower Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian125.77 - 121.4Lebanon Protoculicoides punctus (type locality: 123017 123416 124617)