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Limonia pertinax

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Corethrium pertinax was named by Westwood (1854). It is an impression. Its type locality is Swanage/Purbeck (DORCM/BMNH) [C. Willcox Collection], which is in a Berriasian fluvial-lacustrine limestone in the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Limonia pertinax by Evenhuis (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Corethrium pertinax Westwood pp. 387, 393 figs. Pl 15 fig 2
1885Corethrium pertinax Scudder p. 810 fig. 1082
1906Corethrium pertinax Handlirsch p. 630 figs. Pl LI fig 7
1994Limonia pertinax Evenhuis p. 77

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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
genusLimonia
speciespertinax()

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.

†Limonia pertinax Westwood 1854
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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: Berriasian or 145.00000 to 139.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Berriasian145.0 - 139.8United Kingdom (England) Corethrium pertinax (type locality: 127481)