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Platycheirus persistens

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

Taxonomy
Platycheirus persistens was named by Hull (1938). Its type specimen is MCZ 3949, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Creede (MCZ collection), which is in an Oligocene crater lake shale in the Creede Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Platycheirus persistens Hull p. 116 figs. fig 3
1945Platycheirus persistens Hull p. 269 figs. Pl 4, figs 4,5

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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()
subfamilySyrphinae
tribeBacchiniWilliston 1885
genusPlatycheirusLepeletier and Serville 1825
speciespersistens

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.

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Diagnosis
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