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Gnoriste meigeniana

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Mycetophila meigeniana was named by Heer (1856). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Murchison collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.

It was recombined as Boletina meigeniana by Förster (1891) and Johannsen (1909); it was recombined as Gnoriste meigeniana by Theobald (1937), Theobald (1937) and Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Mycetophila crassa Giebel p. 234
1856Mycetophila meigeniana Heer p. 32
1891Boletina meigeniana Förster p. 458 figs. Pl 14, fig 4
1909Boletina meigeniana Johannsen p. 74
1909Mycetophila crassa Johannsen p. 118
1937Gnoriste meigeniana Theobald p. 324 figs. Pl XX fig 22
2021Gnoriste meigeniana Oliveira and Amorim p. 104

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyGnoristinae(Edwards 1925)
genusGnoriste
speciesmeigeniana()

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.

Gnoriste meigeniana Heer 1856
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Invalid names: Mycetophila crassa Giebel 1856 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
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