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Comptosia pria

Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae

Taxonomy
Comptosia pria was named by Wedmann and Yeates (2008). Its type specimen is MEI 12852, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel grid square E8/9, 1.5-2.5 m above alpha marker, which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Comptosia pria Wedmann and Yeates p. 233 fig. 1,2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
familyBombyliidae()
subfamilyLomatiinae()
tribeLomatiini
genusComptosiaMacquart 1840
speciespria

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.

†Comptosia pria Wedmann and Yeates 2008
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Diagnosis
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