Schlingeromyia
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Schlingeromyia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Acroceridae |
Subfamily: | Acrocerinae |
Genus: | †Schlingeromyia Grimaldi & Hauser in Grimaldi, Arillo, Cumming & Hauser, 2011[1] |
Species: | †S. minuta
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Binomial name | |
†Schlingeromyia minuta Grimaldi & Hauser in Grimaldi, Arillo, Cumming & Hauser, 2011[1]
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Schlingeromyia is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. The genus is known from Upper Cretaceous fossils in Burmese amber from Myanmar. It contains only one species, Schlingeromyia minuta.[1][2]
The genus is named in honor of Evert I. Schlinger. The specific name is the Latin word for "small", referring to the very small size of the species.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Grimaldi, DA; Arillo, A; Cumming, JM; Hauser, M (2011). "Brachyceran Diptera (Insecta) in Cretaceous ambers, Part IV, Significant New Orthorrhaphous Taxa". ZooKeys (148): 293–332. Bibcode:2011ZooK..148..293G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1809. PMC 3264415. PMID 22287902.
- ^ Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566. S2CID 90493326.