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Paleotelmatoscopus formosa

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Pericoma formosa was named by Meunier (1905). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Paleotelmatoscopus.

It was recombined as Paleotelmatoscopus formosa by Curler and Skibińska (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Pericoma formosa Meunier p. 243 figs. Pl 7, figs 1,2
1972Pericoma formosa Hennig p. 66
2021Paleotelmatoscopus formosa Curler and Skibińska p. 508 figs. 1-12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilyPsychodinae
genusPaleotelmatoscopus
speciesformosa()

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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Paleotelmatoscopus formosa (123419 124765)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Pericoma formosa (type locality: 123927)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Paleotelmatoscopus formosa (120813 123215)