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Ditomyiidae

Insecta - Diptera - Ditomyiidae

Taxonomy
Ditomyiidae was named by Edwards (1921). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Ditomyiinae by Statz (1936).

It was assigned to Fungivoridae by Statz (1936); and to Sciaroidea by Evenhuis (1994), Yeates et al. (2007) and Ševčík et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Ditomyiidae Edwards
1936Ditomyiinae Statz p. 69
1994Ditomyiidae Evenhuis
2007Ditomyiidae Yeates et al.
2021Ditomyiidae Ševčík et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyDitomyiidaeEdwards 1921
familyDitomyiidaeEdwards 1921

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.

Fm. Ditomyiidae Edwards 1921
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G. Australosymmerus Freeman 1954
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Invalid names: Centrocnemis Philippi 1865 [replaced]
G. †Burmasymmerus Ševčík et al. 2021
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Burmasymmerus korneliae Ševčík et al. 2021
Burmasymmerus wieslawi Ševčík et al. 2021
G. Ditomyia Winnertz 1846
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Ditomyia pilosella Statz 1944
G. Symmerus Walker 1848
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Symmerus balticus Edwards 1921
Symmerus defectivus Loew 1850
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 Cenomanian to the top of the Chattian or 99.60000 to 23.03000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Burmasymmerus korneliae, Burmasymmerus wieslawi (187929) Burmasymmerus wieslawi (213072 224014)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Australia (Queensland) Centrocnemis imperfecta (125666)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Symmerus balticus (123766)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Mycetobia defectivus (109625)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Ditomyia pilosella (122010)