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Tropidiina

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

Taxonomy
Tropidini was named by Hull (1949). It is extant. Its type is Tropidia.

It was reranked as the subtribe Tropidiina by Moran et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Xylotinae by Hull (1949); and to Milesiini by Moran et al. (2022).

Subtaxa
Tropidia (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1949Tropidini Hull p. 356
2022Tropidiina Moran 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
tribeMilesiiniRondani 1845
subtribeTropidiina()
subtribeTropidiina()

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.

Subtr. Tropidiina Hull 1949
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G. Tropidia Meigen 1822
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Tropidia tumulata Lewis 1973
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Whitneyan to the top of the Chattian or 33.30000 to 23.03000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 30.8 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Whitneyan33.3 - 30.8USA (Montana) Tropidia tumulata (120623)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Tropidia sp. (122010)