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Medeterites atterraneus

Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae

Taxonomy
Anepsiomyia atterraneus was named by Nazarau (1994). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Belarus amber, Gatcha-Osov site, Kobryn district, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Belarus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Palaeopoecilostola speciosa by Kania et al. (2011); it was recombined as Medeterites atterraneus by Grichanov (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Anepsiomyia atterraneus Nazarau p. 104 fig. 2e,f
2012Anepsiomyia atterraneus Kania and Krzemiński p. 43
2023Medeterites atterraneus Grichanov p. S252 figs. Pl 13, figs 1-4

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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
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
superfamilyEmpidoideaLatreille 1804
familyDolichopodidaeLatreille 1809
subfamilyMedeterinaeLioy 1864
genusMedeterites
speciesatterraneus()

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.

Medeterites atterraneus Nazarau 1994
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Medeterites atterraneus (192258)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Belarus Anepsiomyia atterraneus (type locality: 173158)