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Greniera importuna

Insecta - Diptera - Simuliidae

Taxonomy
Simulia importuna 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 Simulium importunum by Evenhuis (1994); it was recombined as Greniera importuna by Crosskey (2002), Perkovsky and Sukhomlin (2015), Pielowska et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1904Simulia importuna Meunier p. 398 figs. Pl 17, fig 11
1994Simulium importunum Evenhuis
2002Greniera importuna Crosskey p. 41 figs. 5-7,14,17,25
2015Greniera importuna Perkovsky and Sukhomlin p. 609
2018Greniera importuna Pielowska et al. p. 244

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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
superfamilySimulioideaNewman 1834
familySimuliidae
subfamilySimuliinae
tribeStegopterniiniEnderlein 1930
genusGrenieraDoby and David 1959
speciesimportuna()

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.

Greniera importuna Meunier 1904
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Greniera importuna (123766) Simulia importuna (type locality: 123927)