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Dixa minuta

Insecta - Diptera - Dixidae

Taxonomy
Dixa minuta was named by Meunier (1906). Its type specimen is Konigsberg 7080, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Göttingen GZG collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Dixa minuta Meunier p. 395 figs. Pl 16, fig 7
1966Dixa minuta Hennig p. 7 fig. 2,4,5,8,14,15
2016Dixa minuta Greenwalt and Moulton p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyCulicoidea
familyDixidaeVan der Wulp 1877
genusDixa
speciesminuta

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.

Dixa minuta Meunier 1906
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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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Dixa minuta (type locality: 123420)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Dixa minuta (109625)