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Culicoides filipalpis

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides filipalpis was named by Remm (1976). Its type specimen is PIN 3311/370, an exoskeleton (female), and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Culicoides filipalpis Remm p. 347 fig. 3a,b
1995Culicoides filipalpis Borkent p. 53 figs. 7, 8
1996Culicoides filipalpis Szadziewski p. 59 figs. 31a,b, 49d
1997Culicoides filipalpis Borkent and Wirth p. 67
2000Culicoides filipalpis Borkent p. 462
2013Culicoides filipalpis Borkent p. 82
2018Culicoides filipalpis Szadziewski p. 223
2019Culicoides filipalpis Borkent p. 37 figs. 3J, 9I,J
2020Culicoides filipalpis Borkent and Dominiak p. 141

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCulicoidini
genusCulicoidesLatreille 1809
speciesfilipalpis

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.

†Culicoides filipalpis Remm 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Turonian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 93.90000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (New Jersey) Culicoides filipalpis (110895)
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Russian Federation Culicoides filipalpis (type locality: 35056)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Culicoides filipalpis (122353 122354 122356)
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Culicoides filipalpis (104932 122383 122384 122385 122388 122389 123143)