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Sylvicola cadaver

Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae

Taxonomy
Asarcomyia cadaver was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is Packard 12, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Green River (Packard Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

It was recombined as Anisopus cadaver by Edwards (1928); it was recombined as Sylvicola cadaver by Evenhuis (1994) and Wojtoń et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Asarcomyia cadaver Scudder p. 567 figs. Pl 9 fig 17
1928Anisopus cadaver Edwards p. 16
1994Sylvicola cadaver Evenhuis p. 206
2018Sylvicola cadaver Wojtoń et al. p. 851

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyAnisopodoidea
familyAnisopodidae
subfamilyAnisopodinae
genusSylvicola
speciescadaver()

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.

Sylvicola cadaver Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available