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Apocephalus succineus

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Taxonomy
Apocephalus succineus was named by Brown (2000). Its type specimen is LACMIP 12785, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (LACM coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Apocephalus succineus Brown p. 17
2021Apocephalus succineus Solórzano-Kraemer et al. p. 674 fig. 4,5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
RankNameAuthor
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
superfamilyPlatypezoideaFallen 1815
familyPhoridae
Euphorida
Neophorida
subfamilyMetopininaePeterson 1887
genusApocephalus
speciessuccineus

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.

Apocephalus succineus Brown 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: 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 (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Apocephalus succineus (122473 122474 122982 159268 type locality: 195100)