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Milesia

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

Taxonomy
Milesia was named by Latreille (1804). It is extant. It is the type genus of Milesiini, Milesiina.

It was assigned to Syrphidae by Scudder (1878) and Scudder (1890); to Milesini by Hull (1949); and to Milesiina by Mengual et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1804Milesia Latreille
1878Milesia Scudder p. 752
1890Milesia Scudder p. 557
1949Milesia Hull p. 370
2015Milesia Mengual et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
familySyrphidae()
subfamilyEristalinae
tribeMilesiiniRondani 1845
subtribeMilesiinaRondani 1845
genusMilesiaLatreille 1804

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. Milesia Latreille 1804
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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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