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Mixosciaritis brachyceroidis

Insecta - Diptera - Sciaridae

Taxonomy
Lycoria brachyceroidis was named by Hong (1981). Its type specimen is GMB IV10034-1, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Xilutian coal mine, Fushun amber (late 1970s collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in China. It is the type species of Mixosciaritis.

It was recombined as Mixosciaritis brachyceroidis by Hong (2002), Hong (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Lycoria brachyceroidis Hong p. 69 figs. Pl 14, figs 35,36; text-figs 74,75.1-4
2002Mixosciaritis brachyceroidis Hong p. 148 figs. 3-124, 3-125, 3-126

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familySciaridae()
subfamilySciarinae
genusMixosciaritis
speciesbrachyceroidis()

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.

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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 48.07000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07China (Liaoning) Lycoria brachyceroidis (type locality: 124530) Mixosciaritis brachyceroidis (124820)