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Kelneria ciliata

Insecta - Diptera - Keroplatidae

Taxonomy
Macrocera ciliata was named by Meunier (1904). Its type specimen is GPIG 3153, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Kelneria ciliata by Matile (1979), Matile (1990) and Evenhuis (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1904Macrocera ciliata Meunier p. 104
1909Macrocera ciliata Johannsen p. 28
1979Kelneria ciliata Matile p. 41 fig. 8,10,17
1990Kelneria ciliata Matile p. 179 figs. 405, 407
2006Kelneria ciliata Evenhuis p. 51

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyKeroplatidaeRondani 1856
subfamilyMacrocerinaeRondani 1856
tribeRobsonomyiini
genusKelneria
speciesciliata()

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.

†Kelneria ciliata Meunier 1904
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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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Macrocera ciliata (type locality: 123927)