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Protoculicoides depressus

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Protoculicoides depressus was named by Boesel (1937). Its type specimen is ROM 6, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada. It is the type species of Protoculicoides.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Protoculicoides depressus Boesel p. 51 figs. 7G, 11B
1995Protoculicoides depressus Borkent p. 34 fig. 2
1997Protoculicoides depressus Borkent and Wirth p. 50
2012Protoculicoides depressus Borkent p. 759 figs. 2A-C
2013Protoculicoides depressus Borkent p. 172
2016Protoculicoides depressus Szadziewski et al. p. 4 fig. 2
2018Protoculicoides depressus Szadziewski p. 224
2019Protoculicoides depressus Borkent p. 8 figs. 2, 4D
2020Protoculicoides depressus Borkent and Dominiak p. 216

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
genusProtoculicoides
speciesdepressus

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 Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Protoculicoides depressus (type locality: 122356)
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Protoculicoides depressus (122389)