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Ptychoptera

Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Taxonomy
Ptychoptera was named by Meigen (1803). It is extant.

It was assigned to Tipulidae by Aldrich (1905); to Ptychopteridae by Evenhuis (1994); and to Ptychopterinae by Podenas (2007).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1803Ptychoptera Meigen p. 262
1905Ptychoptera Aldrich p. 95
1908Liriope Meigen p. 46
1909Ptychopterula Handlirsch p. 269
1994Ptychoptera Evenhuis
1994Ptychopterula Evenhuis
2007Ptychoptera Podenas

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderPtychopteromorpha
familyPtychopteridaeOsten-Sacken 1862
subfamilyPtychopterinaeSchiner 1864
genusPtychoptera

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. Ptychoptera Meigen 1803
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Subg. Ptychoptera (Ptychoptera) Meigen 1803
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Ptychoptera deleta Novák 1878
Ptychoptera mesozoica Kalugina 1989
Ptychoptera miocenica Cockerell 1910
Invalid names: Liriope Meigen 1908 [synonym], Ptychopterula Handlirsch 1909 [synonym]
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 Aptian to the top of the MN 4 or 125.00000 to 15.97000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.0 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Russian Federation (Buryatia) P. mesozoica (105536)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) P. eocenica (124503 124517)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Bittacomorpha miocenica (106380)
MN 416.9 - 15.97Czech Republic P. deleta (117612)