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Xylotini

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

Taxonomy
Xylotinae was named as a subfamily. It is extant. Its type is Xylota.

It was reranked as the tribe Xylotini by Mengual et al. (2015).

It was assigned to Syrphidae by Hull (1945) and Hull (1949); and to Eristalinae by Mengual et al. (2015).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1945Xylotinae Hull p. 338
1949Xylotinae Hull p. 356
2015Xylotini Mengual et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
familySyrphidae()
subfamilyEristalinae
tribeXylotini
tribeXylotini

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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G. †Megaxylota Hull 1945
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Megaxylota magnifemur Hull 1945
G. Xylota Meigen 1822
G. †Xylotosyrphus Hull 1945
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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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Bridgerian to the top of the Priabonian or 50.30000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 46.2 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Utah) Xylotosyrphus pulchrafenestra (140790)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Megaxylota magnifemur (123927)