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Megaselia

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Taxonomy
Megaselia was named by Rondani (1856). It is extant.

It was assigned to Metopininae by Hong (2002); and to Phoridae by Carpenter (1992) and Solórzano Kraemer (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Megaselia Rondani p. 137
1992Megaselia Carpenter
2002Megaselia Hong p. 403
2007Megaselia Solórzano Kraemer p. 86

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
RankNameAuthor
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
superfamilyPlatypezoideaFallen 1815
familyPhoridae
—Euphorida
—Neophorida
subfamilyMetopininaePeterson 1887
genusMegaseliaRondani 1856

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.

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 Ypresian to the top of the Holocene or 56.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8China (Liaoning) M. multipalpulata (124530)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Aphiochaeta inflata, Aphiochaeta sepulta, Aphiochaeta exporrecta, Aphiochaeta insolita (123927) Aphiochaeta inflata, Aphiochaeta sepulta, Aphiochaeta exporrecta, Aphiochaeta lauta (124073) M. uncifera, M. veterana (124205)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France M. sp. (160861 160862)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico M. sp. (21977)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic M. amberae, M. bernsteinae, M. dominicana (122472)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Madagascar Aphiochaeta indistincta, Aphiochaeta inflata (152187)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Ghana Aphiochaeta obstricta (152186)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania Phora copalina, Phora ethiopia, Aphiochaeta praepedita, Aphiochaeta inclusa, Aphiochaeta infossa, Aphiochaeta obruta (140788)