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Zelmiarcha lebanensis

Insecta - Diptera - Archizelmiridae

Taxonomy
Zelmiarcha lebanensis was named by Grimaldi et al. (2003). Its type specimen is MNHN Azar 566, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon. It is the type species of Zelmiarcha.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Zelmiarcha lebanensis Grimaldi et al. p. 372 figs. 6.1-6.5, 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyArchizelmiridae
subfamilyBurmazelmirinae
genusZelmiarcha
specieslebanensis

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Zelmiarcha lebanensis Grimaldi et al. 2003
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available