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Limonia theobaldi

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Limnobia theobaldi was named by Piton (1940). Its type specimen is Coll. Piton 325, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

It was recombined as Limonia theobaldi by Evenhuis (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Limnobia theobaldi Piton p. 214 fig. 81
1994Limonia theobaldi Evenhuis p. 77

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyLimoniidae
subfamilyLimoniinae
genusLimonia
speciestheobaldi()

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.

†Limonia theobaldi Piton 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available