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Sciadocerinae

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Taxonomy
Sciadoceridae was named by Schmitz (1929). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Sciadocerinae by Brown (2007), Brown et al. (2015) and Grimaldi (2018).

It was assigned to Brachycera by Carpenter (1992); and to Phoridae by Brown (2007), Brown et al. (2015) and Grimaldi (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1929Sciadoceridae Schmitz p. 3
1992Sciadoceridae Carpenter
2007Sciadocerinae Brown
2015Sciadocerinae Brown et al.
2018Sciadocerinae Grimaldi p. 76

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
superfamilyPlatypezoideaFallen 1815
familyPhoridae
subfamilySciadocerinae(Schmitz 1929)
subfamilySciadocerinae(Schmitz 1929)

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.

Subfm. Sciadocerinae Schmitz 1929
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G. Archiphora Schmitz 1929
G. †Archisciada Grimaldi and Cumming 1999
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Archisciada lebanensis Grimaldi and Cumming 1999
G. †Eosciadocera Hong 1981
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Eosciadocera helodis Hong 1981
Eosciadocera pauciseta Grimaldi 2018
Eosciadocera setosa Brown 2002
G. †Hennigophora Brown 2007
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Hennigophora pria Grimaldi and Cumming 1999
Hennigophora robusta Meunier 1905
G. †Ulrichophora Brown 2007
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Ulrichophora lobata Brown 2007
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Barremian to the top of the Priabonian or 130.00000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 125.45 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Lebanon Archisciada lebanensis (123017)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Russian Federation (Buryatia) Sciadoceridae indet. (125795)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Sciadocerinae indet. (111688)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (New Jersey) Archiphora pria (110895)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8China (Liaoning) Eosciadocera helodis (124530)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Ulrichophora lobata (124775)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Eosciadocera setosa (123419) Ulrichophora lobata (124765)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Eosciadocera pauciseta (123493) Napomyza robusta (123927) Ulrichophora lobata (151998)