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Palaeopoecilostola speciosa

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy

Limnophila speciosa was named by Meunier (1906). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Palaeopoecilostola speciosa by Alexander (1931) and Kania et al. (2011).

Synonyms

Ryta berestiana was named by Nazarau (1994). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Belarus amber, Gatcha-Osov site, Kobryn district, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Belarus. It is the type species of Ryta.

It was synonymized subjectively with Palaeopoecilostola speciosa by Kania and Krzemiński (2012).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1906	Limnophila speciosa Meunier p. 384 figs. Pl 13, fig 22; pl 14, fig 3,4
1931	Palaeopoecilostola speciosa Alexander p. 48 figs. 51, 55
1994	Ryta berestiana Nazarau p. 107 fig. 2c,d
2011	Palaeopoecilostola speciosa Kania et al. p. 756 figs. 6-8

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825

Rank	Name	Author
class	Insecta
order	Diptera
suborder	Nematocera	Latreille 1825
infraorder	Tipulomorpha
superfamily	Tipuloidea
family	Limoniidae
genus	Palaeopoecilostola
species	speciosa	()

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.

†Palaeopoecilostola speciosa Meunier 1906

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Invalid names: Ryta berestiana Nazarau 1994 [synonym]

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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Poland	Palaeopoecilostola speciosa (120813 123215)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Limnophila speciosa (type locality: 123927 124073)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation	Palaeopoecilostola speciosa (123419)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Belarus	Ryta berestiana (173158)