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Eohelea sinuosa

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Ceratopogon sinuosus was named by Meunier (1904). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Eohelea sinuosa by Szadziewski (1988), Szadziewski (1993), Evenhuis (1994), Borkent and Wirth (1997), Sontag and Szadziewski (2011), Perkovsky (2013), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1904Ceratopogon sinuosus Meunier p. 245
1957Eohelea stridulans Petrunkevitch pp. 209-213 figs. 1-3
1985Eohelea stridulans Szadziewski p. 124 figs. 1-15
1988Eohelea sinuosa Szadziewski p. 161 figs. 509-519
1993Eohelea sinuosa Szadziewski p. 626
1994Eohelea sinuosa Evenhuis
1997Eohelea sinuosa Borkent and Wirth p. 99
2011Eohelea sinuosa Sontag and Szadziewski p. 788
2013Eohelea sinuosa Borkent p. 122
2013Eohelea sinuosa Perkovsky figs. Pl 8, figs 1,2
2018Eohelea sinuosa Szadziewski p. 225
2020Eohelea sinuosa Borkent and Dominiak p. 162

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCeratopogonini
genusEohelea
speciessinuosa()

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.

†Eohelea sinuosa Meunier 1904
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Invalid names: Eohelea stridulans Petrunkevitch 1957 [synonym]
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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Ceratopogon sinuosus (type locality: 123927) Eohelea sinuosa (123221 123962)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Denmark Eohelea sinuosa, Eohelea stridulans (123762)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Eohelea sinuosa (129227 129228)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Eohelea sinuosa (154301) Eohelea stridulans, Eohelea sp. A, Eohelea sp. B (120813)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine Eohelea sinuosa (113621 122995 122996 122997)