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Minyohelea wirthi

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Lebanoconops wirthi was named by Szadziewski (1996). Its type specimen is SMNS C25/13, 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 was recombined as Minyohelea wirthi by Borkent (2000), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Lebanoconops wirthi Szadziewski p. 44 figs. 16a-f
1997Lebanoconops wirthi Borkent and Wirth p. 21
2000Minyohelea wirthi Borkent p. 388
2013Minyohelea wirthi Borkent p. 16
2018Minyohelea wirthi Szadziewski p. 221
2020Minyohelea wirthi 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
specieswirthi()

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 wirthi 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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections: one only


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