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Dixa tertiaria

Insecta - Diptera - Dixidae

Taxonomy
Eriopterites tertiaria was named by Meunier (1915). Its type specimen is Coll Coquand fig 17, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Coquand collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.

It was recombined as Dixa tertiaria by Evenhuis (1994) and Greenwalt and Moulton (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Eriopterites tertiaria Meunier p. 15 fig. 17
1937Dixa hyalipennis Theobald p. 346 figs. Pl XXIII fig 15, 15a,b,c
1994Dixa tertiaria Evenhuis
2016Dixa tertiaria Greenwalt and Moulton p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyCulicoidea
familyDixidaeVan der Wulp 1877
genusDixa
speciestertiaria()

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.

Dixa tertiaria Meunier 1915
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Invalid names: Dixa hyalipennis Theobald 1937 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available