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Palloptera

Insecta - Diptera - Pallopteridae

Taxonomy
Palloptera was named by Fallen (1820). It is extant. It is the type genus of Pallopteridae, Pallopterinae.

It was assigned to Pallopterinae by McAlpine (1981); and to Pallopteridae by Zhang (1989) and Carpenter (1992).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1820Palloptera Fallen p. 23
1981Palloptera McAlpine
1989Palloptera Zhang p. 365
1992Palloptera Carpenter

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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()
Schizophora
superfamilyTephritoidea
familyPallopteridaeLoew 1862
subfamilyPallopterinaeLoew 1862
genusPallopteraFallen 1820

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.

G. Palloptera Fallen 1820
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Palloptera hypolithica Zhang 1989
Palloptera morticina Scudder 1877
Palloptera umbellatarum Fabricius 1775
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Sarmatian or 38.00000 to 11.60800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Canada (British Columbia) P. morticina (121480)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97China (Shandong) P. hypolithica (128552)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia P. umbellatarum (117247)