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Prohercostomus minutus

Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae

Taxonomy
Hygroceleuthus minuta was named by Meunier (1907). 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 was recombined as Dolichopus minutus by Evenhuis (1994); it was replaced with Dolichopus smicrus by Meuffels and Grootaert (1999); it was recombined as Prohercostomus minutus by Grichanov (2023).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Hygroceleuthus minuta Meunier p. 221
1908Hygroceleuthus minuta Meunier p. 76 figs. 122, 123
1994Dolichopus minutus Evenhuis p. 362
1999Dolichopus smicrus Meuffels and Grootaert p. 290
2023Prohercostomus minutus Grichanov p. S256

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
superfamilyEmpidoideaLatreille 1804
familyDolichopodidaeLatreille 1809
subfamilyDolichopodinaeLatreille 1809
genusProhercostomus()
speciesminutus()

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.

†Prohercostomus minutus Meunier 1907
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Invalid names: Prohercostomus smicrus Meuffels and Grootaert 1999 [objective synonym]
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 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Hygroceleuthus minuta (type locality: 123927)