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Sciophila hyatti

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Sciophila hyattii was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is Lee 99, a wing (wing & fragments of leg), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Green River (Lee Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

It was corrected as Sciophila hyatti by Evenhuis (1994) and Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Sciophila hyattii Scudder p. 597 figs. Pl 10 fig 6
1994Sciophila hyatti Evenhuis p. 166
2021Sciophila hyatti Oliveira and Amorim

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilySciophilinae
genusSciophila
specieshyatti()

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.

†Sciophila hyatti Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available