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Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Leptoconops boreus was named by Kalugina (1991). Its type specimen is PIN 3426/119, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Taimyr Amber, Nizhnyaya Agapa River (PIN collection 3426), which is in a Cenomanian fluvial amber in the Dolgan Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus by Borkent and Wirth (1997), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018), Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1991Leptoconops boreus Kalugina p. 76 figs. Pl 6, fig 3; text-fig 5
1996Leptoconops boreus Szadziewski p. 49 fig. 20a,b
1997Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus Borkent and Wirth p. 17
2013Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus Borkent p. 14
2018Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus Szadziewski p. 223
2020Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus Borkent and Dominiak p. 38

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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
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyLeptoconopinaeNoe 1907
genusLeptoconops
subgenusLeptoconops
speciesboreus()

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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Russian Federation Leptoconops boreus (type locality: 35051)