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Meunierohelea wirthi

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Meunierohelea wirthi was named by Szadziewski (1988). Its type specimen is ZMC 225, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Denmark.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Meunierohelea wirthi Szadziewski p. 157 figs. 501-503
1997Meunierohelea wirthi Borkent and Wirth p. 101
2013Meunierohelea wirthi Borkent p. 125
2018Meunierohelea wirthi Szadziewski p. 226
2020Meunierohelea wirthi Borkent and Dominiak p. 165

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCeratopogonini
genusMeunierohelea
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.

†Meunierohelea wirthi Szadziewski 1988
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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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Denmark Meunierohelea wirthi (type locality: 123762)