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Culicoides (Oecacta) succivarius

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Culicoides (Oecacta) succivarius was named by Szadziewski (1988). Its type specimen is MZW 11926, 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.

It was recombined as Culicoides succivarius by Borkent and Wirth (1997), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Culicoides (Oecacta) succivarius Szadziewski p. 40 figs. 43-47
1997Culicoides succivarius Borkent and Wirth p. 83
2013Culicoides succivarius Borkent p. 101
2018Culicoides succivarius Szadziewski p. 225
2020Culicoides succivarius Borkent and Dominiak p. 142

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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
subgenusOecacta(Poey 1853)
speciessuccivarius

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
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: 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 succivarius (type locality: 120813)