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Bibionomorpha Hennig 1948

Description

Infraorder Bibionomorpha Hennig, 1948 Family Cecidomyiidae Newman, 1835 Subfamily Micromyinae Rondani, 1856

Tribe Amediini Jaschhof, 2021

Genus Eltxo Arillo & Nel, 2000

Type species. Eltxo cretaceus Arillo & Nel, 2000

Emended diagnosis. Male and female. Cecidomyiid fly with tarsomere 1 longer than 2. Antennae with 13 flagellomeres. Ocelli absent. Wing venation reduced, without vein M or with short and evanescent vein M. Vein CuA unforked. C extending beyond Rs, far apex of wing. R1 joining C at half length of wing. Rs joining C beyond wing apex.

Notes

Published as part of PEÑALVER, ENRIQUE, ARILLO, ANTONIO & NEL, ANDRÉ, 2022, A review of the Cretaceous genus Eltxo (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) with description of the new species Eltxo grimaldii from El Soplao amber, pp. 461-467 in Palaeoentomology 5 (5) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/7333739

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Saxifragales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Hennig
Taxon rank
infraOrder
Taxonomic concept label
Bibionomorpha Hennig, 1948 sec. PEÑALVER, ARILLO & NEL, 2022

References

  • Hennig, W. (1948) Die Larvenformen der Dipteren. 1. Akademie- Verlag, Berlin, 185 pp.
  • Newman, E. (1835) Attempted division on British insects into natural orders. Entomological Magazine, 2, 195 - 227.
  • Rondani, C. (1856) Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol 1: Genera Italica ordinis dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et i familias et stirpes aggregata. Parma, 228 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8160
  • Jaschhof, M. (2021) Areviewofgallmidges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) described from Mesozoic deposits. Palaeoentomology, 4 (1), 001 - 014. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / palaeoentomology. 4.1.1
  • Arillo, A. & Nel, A. (2000) Two new fossil cecidomyiids flies from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Alava (Spain) (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 105 (3), 285 - 288. https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / bsef. 2000.16673