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Nicocles

Insecta - Diptera - Asilidae

Taxonomy
Nicocles was named by Jaennicke (1867). It is extant.

It was assigned to Dasypogoninae by James (1939) and Hull (1962); to Asilidae by Aldrich (1905) and Carpenter (1992); and to Brachyrhopalinae by Dikow (2009).

Species
N. miocenicus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1867Nicocles Jaennicke p. 355
1905Nicocles Aldrich p. 266
1939Nicocles James p. 43
1962Nicocles Hull
1992Nicocles Carpenter
2009Nicocles Dikow p. 111

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
superfamilyAsiloidea
familyAsilidae()
subfamilyBrachyrhopalinae()
genusNicoclesJaennicke 1867

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. Nicocles Jaennicke 1867
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†Nicocles miocenicus Cockerell 1909
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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) N. miocenicus (122742)