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Dicranoptycha burmitica

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Dicranoptycha burmitica was named by Kania and Szwedo (2015). Its type specimen is NIGP 156981, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Dicranoptycha burmitica Kania and Szwedo p. 525 figs. 2-4
2016Dicranoptycha burmitica Gao et al. p. 43

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyLimoniidae
subfamilyLimoniinae
genusDicranoptycha
speciesburmitica

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.

†Dicranoptycha burmitica Kania and Szwedo 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available