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Heterostomus

Insecta - Diptera - Xylophagidae

Taxonomy
Heterostomus was named by Bigot (1857). It is extant. It is the type genus of Heterostomini.

It was assigned to Heterostomini by Mostovski and Martínez-Delclòs (2000) and Bayless (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Heterostomus Bigot p. 283
2000Heterostomus Mostovski and Martínez-Delclòs p. 145
2012Heterostomus Bayless

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Homeodactyla
familyXylophagidaeFallen 1810
subfamilyXylophaginaeFallen 1810
tribeHeterostominiNagatomi 1977
genusHeterostomus

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. Heterostomus Bigot 1857
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015
Collections
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