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Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Leptoconops nosopheris was named by Poinar (2008). Its type specimen is OSU BD-47b, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

It was recombined as Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris by Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Leptoconops nosopheris Poinar p. 468 figs. 1-3
2013Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris Borkent p. 14
2018Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris Szadziewski p. 222
2020Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris Borkent and Dominiak p. 39

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyLeptoconopinaeNoe 1907
genusLeptoconops
subgenusLeptoconops
speciesnosopheris()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available