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Bombylius

Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae

Taxonomy

Bombylius was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Bombyliini, Bombyliinae, Bombylarii.

It was assigned to Halterata by Scopoli (1763); to Diptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Antliata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Bombylarii by Latreille (1802); to Bombyliidae by Aldrich (1905) and Carpenter (1992); and to Bombyliini by Evenhuis and Greathead (1999) and Li and Yeates (2019).

Species

B. (Bombylius), B. fossilis, B. tertiarius

Synonyms

Bombylius fossilis was named by Handlirsch (1907). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Gabbro (Bosniaski collection), which is in a Messinian terrestrial horizon in Italy.

It was considered a nomen nudum by Handlirsch (1907); it was recombined as Bombylius (Bombylius) fossilis by Evenhuis and Greathead (1999).
Bombylius tertiarius was named by Handlirsch (1907). Its type specimen is NHMW 1984/32/173, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Gabbro (Bosniaski collection), which is in a Messinian terrestrial horizon in Italy.

It was considered a nomen nudum by Handlirsch (1907); it was recombined as Bombylius (Bombylius) tertiarius by Evenhuis and Greathead (1999).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Bombylius Linnaeus p. 606
1761	Bombylius Linnaeus p. 471
1763	Bombylius Scopoli p. 375
1764	Bombylius Müller p. 88
1766	Bombylius Schaeffer
1767	Bombylius Linnaeus p. 1009
1775	Bombylius Fabricius p. 802
1776	Bombylius Müller p. 182
1796	Bombylius Latreille p. 156
1798	Bombylius Fabricius p. 569
1802	Bombylius Latreille p. 429
1905	Bombylius Aldrich p. 235
1907	Bombylius fossilis Handlirsch p. 1012
1907	Bombylius tertiarius Handlirsch p. 1012
1992	Bombylius Carpenter
1999	Bombylius Evenhuis and Greathead
1999	Bombylius (Bombylius) fossilis Evenhuis and Greathead
1999	Bombylius (Bombylius) tertiarius Evenhuis and Greathead
2019	Bombylius Li and Yeates p. 871

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
order	Diptera
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
—	Heterodactyla
family	Bombyliidae	()
subfamily	Bombyliinae
tribe	Bombyliini
genus	Bombylius

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. Bombylius Linnaeus 1758

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Subg. Bombylius (Bombylius) Linnaeus 1758

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†Bombylius (Bombylius) depereti Meunier 1915

Invalid names: Bombylius fossilis Handlirsch 1907 [nomen nudum], Bombylius tertiarius Handlirsch 1907 [nomen nudum]

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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chattian to the top of the Messinian or 28.10000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)	B. depereti (122487)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Italy (Tuscany)	B. fossilis, B. tertiarius (113751)