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Heteromyia

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Heteromyia was named by Say (1825). It is extant. It is the type genus of Heteromyiini.

It was assigned to Chironomidae by Aldrich (1905); to Ceratopogoninae by Kieffer (1906); and to Heteromyiini by Borkent and Wirth (1997), Szadziewski and Grogan (1997), Borkent (2013) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1825Heteromyia Say
1905Heteromyia Aldrich p. 110
1906Heteromyia Kieffer p. 64
1997Heteromyia Borkent and Wirth p. 113
1997Heteromyia Szadziewski and Grogan
2013Heteromyia Borkent p. 141
2020Heteromyia Borkent and Dominiak p. 183

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeHeteromyiiniWirth 1962
genusHeteromyiaSay 1825

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.

G. Heteromyia Say 1825
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Heteromyia dominicana Szadziewski and Grogan 1997
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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic H. dominicana (122474)