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Anatella tacita

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Anatella tacita was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is Packard 14, an exoskeleton (fly with damaged wings), 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.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Anatella tacita Scudder p. 589 figs. Pl 10 fig 13
1909Anatella tacita Johannsen p. 91
2021Anatella tacita Oliveira and Amorim p. 106

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyMycetophilinae
tribeExechiiniEnderlein 1936
genusAnatella
speciestacita

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.

†Anatella tacita Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
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