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Muscini

Insecta - Diptera - Muscidae

Taxonomy
Muscini was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. Its type is Musca.

It was assigned to Muscinae by Pont and de Carvalho (1997) and Grzywacz et al. (2021).

Subtaxa
Archaeopolietes, Musca (type genus), Pyrellia

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1802Muscini Latreille p. 453
1997Muscini Pont and de Carvalho p. 178
2021Muscini Grzywacz et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
RankNameAuthor
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
Schizophora
Calyptratae()
familyMuscidae()
subfamilyMuscinae
tribeMuscini
tribeMuscini

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.

Tr. Muscini Latreille 1802
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G. †Archaeopolietes Pont and de Carvalho 1997
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Archaeopolietes tertiaria Pont and de Carvalho 1997
G. Musca Linnaeus 1758
G. Pyrellia Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
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Pyrellia viridissima Meunier 1908
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 Bridgerian to the top of the Holocene or 50.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 46.2 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Colorado) Musca sp. (121146)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Archaeopolietes tertiaria (122982)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania Pyrellia viridissima (140788)