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Ovisargus (Helempis)

Insecta - Diptera - Archisargidae

Taxonomy
Helempis was named by Ren (1998).

It was synonymized subjectively with Ovisargus by Zhang (2012); it was reranked as Ovisargus (Helempis) by Zhang (2014).

It was assigned to Protempididae by Ren (1998); to Protempidinae by Mostovski (1999); to Ovisargus by Zhang (2014); and to Archisargidae by Grimaldi and Barden (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Helempis Ren p. 80
1999Helempis Mostovski p. 108
2014Ovisargus (Helempis) Zhang p. 867
2016Helempis Grimaldi and Barden p. 26

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
superfamilyArchisargoidea
familyArchisargidae
subfamilyArchisarginae
genusOvisargus
subgenusHelempis()

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.

Subg. †Ovisargus (Helempis) Ren 1998
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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: Late/Upper Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45China (Liaoning) Helempis yixianensis (138436)