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Sciara deperdita

Insecta - Diptera - Sciaridae

Taxonomy
Sciara deperdita was named by Scudder (1878). Its type specimen is 44, a wing (perfect wing), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Quesnel, which is in a Priabonian lacustrine shale in the Australian Creek Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Sciara deperdita Scudder pp. 457-458
1890Sciara deperdita Scudder p. 586 figs. Pl 3 fig 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familySciaridae()
subfamilySciarinae
genusSciara
speciesdeperdita

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.

Sciara deperdita Scudder 1878
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Diagnosis
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