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Blepharepium borealis

Insecta - Diptera - Asilidae

Taxonomy
Senobasis borealis was named by James (1939). Its type specimen is Museum of Comparative Zoology No. 4498, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Senoprosopis (Eosenoprosopis) borealis by Hull (1962); it was recombined as Blepharepium borealis by Papavero and Bernardi (1973).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Senobasis borealis James p. 45
1962Senoprosopis (Eosenoprosopis) borealis Hull p. 24
1973Blepharepium borealis Papavero and Bernardi p. 171 fig. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
superfamilyAsiloidea
familyAsilidae()
subfamilyDasypogoninaeMacquart 1838
tribeBlepharepiini
genusBlepharepium
speciesborealis()

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.

Blepharepium borealis James 1939
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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: Chadronian or 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Senobasis borealis (type locality: 106384)