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Mycomya fossilis

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Mycomyia fossilis was named by Statz (1944). Its type specimen is LACMIP 3660, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Statz Collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - small shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Mycomya fossilis by Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1944Mycomyia fossilis Statz p. 73 figs. Pl.1 fig.7; pl.3, fig.33
2021Mycomya fossilis Oliveira and Amorim p. 105

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyMycomyinae(Edwards 1925)
genusMycomyaRondani 1856
speciesfossilis()

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.

†Mycomya fossilis Statz 1944
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