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Culicoides kaluginae

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides kaluginae was named by Remm (1976). Its type specimen is PIN 3311/368, an exoskeleton (female), and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Culicoides kaluginae Remm p. 347 figs. 2a-d
1996Culicoides kaluginae Szadziewski p. 60 figs. 32a-f, 49c
1997Culicoides kaluginae Borkent and Wirth p. 71
2013Culicoides kaluginae Borkent p. 87
2018Culicoides kaluginae Szadziewski p. 223
2020Culicoides kaluginae 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
specieskaluginae

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 kaluginae Remm 1976
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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: Late/Upper Santonian or 85.80000 to 83.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Russian Federation Culicoides kaluginae (type locality: 35056)