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Mesopsychoda dasyptera

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Mesopsychoda dasyptera was named by Brauer et al. (1889). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Ust-Baley Locality (Czekanowski collection), which is in a Toarcian lacustrine - small horizon in the Cheremkhovskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Mesopsychoda dasyptera Brauer et al. p. 17 fig. 21
1906Mesopsychoda dasyptera Handlirsch p. 629 figs. Pl LI fig 4
1994Mesopsychoda dasyptera Evenhuis

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
genusMesopsychoda
speciesdasyptera

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.

Mesopsychoda dasyptera Brauer et al. 1889
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Toarcian or 182.70000 to 174.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Toarcian182.7 - 174.1Russian Federation (Irkutsk) Mesopsychoda dasyptera (type locality: 114696)