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Culicoides annosus

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides annosus was named by Borkent (1995). Its type specimen is MCZ 6890, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (MCZ collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Culicoides annosus Borkent p. 65 figs. Pl 12, fig 4; text-figs 1,5
1997Culicoides annosus Borkent and Wirth p. 62
2013Culicoides annosus Borkent p. 74
2018Culicoides annosus Szadziewski p. 224
2020Culicoides annosus 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
speciesannosus

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 annosus Borkent 1995
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Culicoides annosus (type locality: 122354)
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Culicoides annosus (104932)