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Orthocladius

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Orthocladius van der Wulp p. 132
1905Orthocladius Aldrich p. 114
1906Orthocladius Kieffer p. 25
1944Orthocladius Statz p. 131
2012Orthocladius Zelentsov et al. p. 82

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
familyChironomidaeMacquart 1838
subfamilyOrthocladiinaeLenz 1921
genusOrthocladius

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. Orthocladius van der Wulp 1874
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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 Priabonian to the top of the Gelasian or 38.00000 to 1.80600 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine O. sp. (113621)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) O. sp 4, O. sp 3, O. sp 2, O. sp 1 (122010)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Greenland O. sp. (160143 160145)