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Culicoides bifidus

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides bifidus was named by Borkent (1996). Its type specimen is AMNH NJ-93, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Sunrise landing, East Brunswick, which is in a Turonian terrestrial amber in the Raritan Formation of New Jersey.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Culicoides bifidus Borkent p. 19 figs. 4E-H, 5A,B, 8C
1997Culicoides bifidus Borkent and Wirth p. 63
2013Culicoides bifidus Borkent p. 76
2020Culicoides bifidus 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
speciesbifidus

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 bifidus Borkent 1996
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Turonian or 93.90000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (New Jersey) Culicoides bifidus (type locality: 123016)