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Mycetobia antillea

Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae

Taxonomy
Mycetobia antillea was named by Grimaldi (1991). Its type specimen is AMNH DR-2-13, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Neomesochria antillea by Amorim and Tozoni (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1991Mycetobia antillea Grimaldi p. 13 figs. 33, 35, 38, 40
1994Neomesochria antillea Amorim and Tozoni p. 533
2016Mycetobia antillea Amorim et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyAnisopodoidea
familyAnisopodidae
subfamilyMycetobiinae
genusMycetobia
speciesantillea

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.

Mycetobia antillea Grimaldi 1991
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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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Mycetobia antillea (type locality: 122982)