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Minyohelea lebanica

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Lebanoconops lebanicus was named by Szadziewski (1996). Its type specimen is SMNS C31/2, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon. It is the type species of Lebanoconops.

It was recombined as Minyohelea lebanica by Borkent (2000), Borkent (2013) and Szadziewski (2018); it was misspelled as Minyohelea lebanicus by Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Lebanoconops lebanicus Szadziewski p. 42 figs. 14a-g
1997Lebanoconops lebanicus Borkent and Wirth p. 21
2000Minyohelea lebanica Borkent p. 387 figs. 18a-e
2013Minyohelea lebanica Borkent p. 16
2018Minyohelea lebanica Szadziewski p. 221
2020Minyohelea lebanicus Borkent and Dominiak p. 40

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyLeptoconopinaeNoe 1907
genusMinyohelea
specieslebanica()

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.

†Minyohelea lebanica Szadziewski 1996
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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: Early/Lower Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Lebanon Lebanoconops lebanicus (type locality: 124276) Minyohelea lebanica (122359)