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Ablabesmyia

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Taxonomy
Ablabesmyia was named by Johannsen (1905). It is extant.

It was assigned to Tanypinae by Kieffer (1906); to Tanypodinae by Grund (2005) and Zelentsov et al. (2012); and to Pentaneurini by Doitteau and Nel (2007) and Krosch et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Ablabesmyia Johannsen
1906Ablabesmyia Kieffer p. 42
2005Ablabesmyia Grund p. 31
2007Ablabesmyia Doitteau and Nel p. 19
2012Ablabesmyia Zelentsov et al. p. 80
2022Ablabesmyia Krosch et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
familyChironomidaeMacquart 1838
subfamilyTanypodinae
tribePentaneuriniHennig 1950
genusAblabesmyiaJohannsen 1905

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.

G. Ablabesmyia Johannsen 1905
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Subg. Ablabesmyia (Karelia) Roback 1971
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Ablabesmyia (Karelia) eocenica Doitteau and Nel 2007
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Langhian or 56.00000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8France (Oise) A. eocenica (123850)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine A. sp. (113621)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic A. electrohispaniolana (122474)