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Poliomyia recta

Insecta - Diptera

Taxonomy
Poliomyia recta was named by Scudder (1878). Its type specimen is 14696, an exoskeleton (dorsal aspect), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Petrified fish cut (Richardson Coll), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Poliomyia recta Scudder p. 755
1885Poliomyia recta Scudder p. 807 fig. 1072
1890Poliomyia recta Scudder p. 556 figs. Pl 9 figs 19, 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
—Schizophora
genusPoliomyia
speciesrecta

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.

†Poliomyia recta Scudder 1878
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Diagnosis
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