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Gerontodacus krzeminskii

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Protoculicoides krzeminskii was named by Choufani et al. (2015). Its type specimen is Azar 287A, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

It was recombined as Archiaustroconops krzeminskii by Szadziewski et al. (2016) and Szadziewski (2018); it was recombined as Gerontodacus krzeminskii by Borkent (2019) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Protoculicoides krzeminskii Choufani et al. p. 276 figs. 9-16
2016Archiaustroconops krzeminskii Szadziewski et al. p. 5
2018Archiaustroconops krzeminskii Szadziewski p. 220
2019Gerontodacus krzeminskii Borkent p. 18
2020Gerontodacus krzeminskii Borkent and Dominiak p. 216

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
genusGerontodacus
specieskrzeminskii()

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.

Gerontodacus krzeminskii Choufani et al. 2015
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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: Early/Lower Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Lebanon Protoculicoides krzeminskii (type locality: 122471)