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Mesosemiini

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Riodinidae

Taxonomy
Mesosemiae was named by Bates (1859). It is extant.

It was reranked as the tribe Mesosemiini by Hall (2003), Peñalver and Grimaldi (2006), Sohn et al. (2012) and de Jong (2017).

It was assigned to Riodininae by Hall (2003), Peñalver and Grimaldi (2006), Sohn et al. (2012) and de Jong (2017).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Mesosemiini Hall
2006Mesosemiini Peñalver and Grimaldi p. 3
2012Mesosemiini Sohn et al. p. 62
2017Mesosemiini de Jong p. 25

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
Metamphiesmenoptera
RankNameAuthor
Euamphiesmenoptera
Panendymenoptera
Endymenoptera
Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
EulepidopteraKiriakoff 1948
Euheteroneura
DitrysiaBorner 1925
ApoditrysiaMinet 1983
ObtectomeraMinet 1986
superfamilyPapilionoidea
familyRiodinidaeGrote 1895
subfamilyRiodininaeGrote 1895
tribeMesosemiini()
tribeMesosemiini()

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.

Tr. Mesosemiini Bates 1859
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G. Voltinia Stichel 1910
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Voltinia dramba Hall et al. 2004
Invalid names: Napaeina Hall 2003 [empty]
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 13.82 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Voltinia dramba (122473 122982 124231 152281)