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Pericoma primaeva

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Psychoda primaeva was named by Cockerell (1915). Its type specimen is USNM 61441, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Pericoma primaeva by Azar (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Psychoda primaeva Cockerell p. 493 figs. Pl 62, fig 5
2019Pericoma primaeva Azar p. 518 figs. Pl 5d-g; text-figs 46-49

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilyPsychodinae
tribePericomaini(Enderlein 1935)
genusPericomaWalker 1856
speciesprimaeva()

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.

†Pericoma primaeva Cockerell 1915
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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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (Isle of Wight) Pericoma primaeva (157666)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) Pericoma primaeva (113829 123960) Psychoda primaeva (type locality: 123959)