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Culicoides brodzinskyi

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides (Oecacta) brodzinskyi was named by Szadziewski and Grogan (1998). Its type specimen is AMNH WDR-50, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Culicoides (Oecacta) brodzinskyi Szadziewski and Grogan p. 40 figs. 4-10
2013Culicoides brodzinskyi Borkent p. 77
2018Culicoides brodzinskyi Szadziewski p. 226
2020Culicoides brodzinskyi 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
speciesbrodzinskyi()

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 brodzinskyi Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
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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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Culicoides brodzinskyi (type locality: 122982)