Palaeomedeterus

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Palaeomedeterus
Temporal range: Eocene, 37.2–33.9  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Peloropeodinae
Genus:† Palaeomedeterus
Meunier, 1895 [1]
Type species
Tipula culiciforme
Meunier, 1899
Synonyms [2]
  • PalaeochrysotusMeunier, 1907 [3]
  • GheyniaMeunier, 1899 [4]
  • GheyniusMeunier, 1907 (unjustified emendation)

Palaeomedeterus is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Baltic amber and Cambay amber from the Eocene. The genus was first proposed by Fernand Meunier in 1895 with no included species or description, though illustrations were provided for six different unnamed species (making the name Palaeomedeterus available according to the ICZN). [2]

Species

The genus includes the following species: [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Meunier, F. (1895). "Les Dolichopodidae de l'ambre tertiaire". Mémoires. Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles. 19: 173–175.
  2. 1 2 3 I.Ya. Grichanov; O.P. Negrobov (2018). "Peloropeodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Baltic amber" (PDF). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 14 (1): 95–104. doi: 10.23885/1814-3326-2018-14-1-95-104 .
  3. ↑ Meunier, F. (1907). "Monographie des Dolichopodidæ de l'ambre de la Baltique". Le Naturaliste: Revue illustrée des sciences naturelles. 2 (in French). 21 (29): 197–199.
  4. ↑ Meunier, F. (1899). "Note sur les Dolichopodidae de l'ambre tertiaire [Dipt.]". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France . 1899: 322–323.
  5. ↑ Meunier, F. (1907). "Monographie des Dolichopodidæ de l'ambre de la Baltique". Le Naturaliste: Revue illustrée des sciences naturelles. 2 (in French). 21 (29): 209–211.
  6. ↑ Bickel, D. J.; Martin, J.; Agnihotri, P.; Singh, H. (2022). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from the Eocene amber deposits of Cambay and Kutch Basins, India". Palaeoentomology. 5 (5): 475–486. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.5.9. S2CID   252472963.
  7. ↑ Meuffels, H. J. G.; Grootaert, Patrick (1999). "New names in the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 289–292. Retrieved 30 March 2018.

Evenhuis, N.L. (2 Apr 2014). "Family Dolichopodidae". Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. 2.0.


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