Paleoplatyura
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Keroplatidae
Subfamily: Keroplatinae
Tribe: Orfeliini
Genus: Paleoplatyura
Meunier, 1899

Paleoplatyura is a genus of predatory fungus gnats in the family Keroplatidae. There are about seven described species in Paleoplatyura.[1][2][3][4] Fossil species are known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar, dating to around 100 million years ago.[5]

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Paleoplatyura:

  • P. aldrichii Johannsen, 1909
  • P. johnsoni Johannsen, 1910
  • P. melanderi Fisher, 1941
  • M. macrocera (Meunier, 1899)
  • P. eocenica Cockerell, 1921
  • P. loewi Meunier, 1922
  • P. macrocera Meunier, 1899

References

  1. "Paleoplatyura Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Paleoplatyura". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. Greenwalt, D.; Kjærandsen, J. (2019). "Fungus Gnats Online, Keroplatidae". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. Ševčík, Jan; Krzemiński, Wiesław; Skibińska, Kornelia (2021-12-24). "Extant Genus in the Mesozoic: Paleoplatyura Meunier (Diptera: Keroplatidae) Found in the Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar". Insects. 13 (1): 24. doi:10.3390/insects13010024. ISSN 2075-4450. PMC 8778176. PMID 35055867.
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