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Lasioptera

Insecta - Diptera - Cecidomyiidae

Taxonomy
Lasioptera was named by Meigen (1818). It is extant. It is the type genus of Lasiopteridi.

It was assigned to Cecidomyidae by Aldrich (1905); to Cecidomyiidae by Scudder (1877), Scudder (1890) and Carpenter (1992); and to Lasiopterini by Gagné and Jaschhof (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1818Lasioptera Meigen p. 88
1877Lasioptera Scudder p. 745
1890Lasioptera Scudder p. 600
1905Lasioptera Aldrich p. 153
1992Lasioptera Carpenter
2014Lasioptera Gagné and Jaschhof p. 238

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyCecidomyiidae
subfamilyCecidomyiinae
—LasiopteridiRubsaamen and Hedicke 1926
tribeLasiopteriniRubsaamen and Hedicke 1926
genusLasioptera

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.

G. Lasioptera Meigen 1818
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available