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Lauxaniidae

Insecta - Diptera - Lauxaniidae

Synonyms
  • Lonchaea senescens was named by Scudder (1877). Its type specimen is GSC 17, an exoskeleton (fragmentary body and expanded wings), 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.

    It was considered a nomen dubium by Evenhuis (1994).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Lauxaniidae Macquart p. 506
1877Lonchaea senescens Scudder pp. 277-278
1890Lonchaea senescens Scudder p. 539 figs. Pl 3 fig 18
1992Lauxaniidae Carpenter
2011Lauxaniidae Wiegmann 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()
Schizophora
superfamilyLauxanioidea
familyLauxaniidae
familyLauxaniidae

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.

Fm. Lauxaniidae Macquart 1835
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G. †Chamaelauxania Hennig 1965
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Chamaelauxania succini Hennig 1965
G. †Eolausanites Hong 2002
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G. †Hemilauxania Hennig 1965
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Hemilauxania incurviseta Hennig 1965
Subfm. Homoneurinae Stuckenberg 1971
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G. Trypetisoma Malloch 1924
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Invalid names: Trypaneoides Tonnoir and Malloch 1926 [synonym]
Subfm. Lauxaniinae Macquart 1835
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G. Sapromyza Fallen 1810
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Sapromyza veterana Melander 1949
Invalid names: Lonchaea senescens Scudder 1877 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available