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Mycetophila occultata

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Mycetophila occultata was named by Scudder (1877). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Chagrin Valley, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Mycetophila occultata Scudder p. 753
1890Mycetophila occultata Scudder p. 588 figs. Pl 5 figs 44, 45, 54, 55
1909Mycetophila occultata Johannsen p. 122

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyMycetophilinae
tribeMycetophilini
genusMycetophila
speciesoccultata

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.

†Mycetophila occultata Scudder 1877
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available