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Ormosia (Oreophila) tornquisti

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Ormosia tornquisti was named by Alexander (1931). Its type specimen is Konigsberg 5217 VI 3244, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Ormosia (Oreophila) tornquisti by Podenas (1999).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. emarginata

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Ormosia tornquisti Alexander p. 102 figs. 129, 130
1999Ormosia (Oreophila) tornquisti Podenas p. 196 fig. 39

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyLimoniidae
subfamilyChioneinaeRondani 1861
tribeMolophiliniSavchenko and Krivolutskaya 1976
genusOrmosiaRondani 1856
subgenusOreophila(Lackschewitz 1935)
speciestornquisti()

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
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