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Camptopterohelea odora

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Camptopterohelea odora was named by Stebner et al. (2017). Its type specimen is AMNH Tad-859a, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in India.

It was considered a nomen nudum by Stebner et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Camptopterohelea odora Stebner et al. p. 1
2018Camptopterohelea odora Szadziewski p. 224
2020Camptopterohelea odora Borkent and Dominiak p. 157

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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
genusCamptopteroheleaWirth and Hubert 1960
speciesodora

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.

Camptopterohelea odora Stebner et al. 2017
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8India (Gujarat) Camptopterohelea odora (type locality: 124463)