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Culicoides gedanensis

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides gedanensis was named by Szadziewski (1988). Its type specimen is MZW 18558, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Culicoides gedanensis Szadziewski p. 47 figs. 68-75
1997Culicoides gedanensis Borkent and Wirth p. 68
2013Culicoides gedanensis Borkent p. 83
2018Culicoides gedanensis Pielowska et al. p. 241
2018Culicoides gedanensis Szadziewski p. 225
2020Culicoides gedanensis 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
speciesgedanensis

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 gedanensis Szadziewski 1988
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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 - 33.9Poland Culicoides gedanensis (type locality: 120813)