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Sciomyza

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Description

Sciomyza is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciomyza, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1444015	https://www.gbif.org/species/1444015
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	139288	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=139288

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Sciomyzidae : Sciomyza

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
-	Heterodactyla
-	Eremoneura	Grimaldi and Cumming 1999
suborder	Cyclorrhapha
-	Schizophora	Becher 1882
superfamily	Sciomyzoidea	Fallen 1820
family	Sciomyzidae	Fallen 1820
subfamily	Sciomyzinae	Fallen 1820
tribe	Sciomyzini	Fallen 1820
genus	Sciomyza	Fallén 1820

Scientific Name

Sciomyza Fallén, 1820

Name Published In

Fallén, Carl F. 1820. Sciomyzides Sveciae. Diptera Sveciae 2: 1-16.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sciomyza	genus	belongs to Sciomyzidae	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1878
Sciomyza	genus	belongs to Sciomyzidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Sciomyza	genus	belongs to Sciomyzini	stated with evidence	Tóthová et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (20%)

First Recorded Appearance

50.3 - 46.2 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4:1-655

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciomyza

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Sciomyza acuticornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza annulipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza antica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza aristalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza armillata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza brunnipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza capensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza disjecta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	50.3 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Sciomyza dryomyzina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza facialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza flaviceps species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza florissantensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Sciomyza fulvescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza fuscinevris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza hawaiiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza infuscata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza limbipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza lucida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza manca ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	50.3 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Sciomyza melanaspis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza nigrifrons species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza obscuripennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza plumbella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza propinqua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza pulchra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza revelata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Sciomyza sebezhica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza simplex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza squalida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza testacea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza thoracica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza varia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomyza virgata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Sciomyia Zetterstedt, 1860	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Sciomyzidae : *Sciomyia*
Bischofia Hendel, 1902	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Sciomyzidae : *Bischofia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1820	Sciomyza Fallen p. 11
1878	Sciomyza Scudder p. 756
1992	Sciomyza Carpenter
2013	Sciomyza Tóthová et al.

References

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Scudder S. H. The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales, Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4 4, 747-776

Tóthová A., Rozkosny R., et al (2013) A phylogenetic analysis of Sciomyzidae (Diptera) and some related genera, Cladistics 29, 404-415

Struwe, Ingemar (2007) SWEDISH BRACHYCERA LIST (sammanställning av taxa inom Diptera) - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

PESI (2015) Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure. Accessed through www.eu-nomen.eu/portal - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Beuk, P.L.Th. (ed.) (2002) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Vaillant, F. & Rozkošný, R. (2002) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sciomyz. Sveciae - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nilsson, A. (ed.) (1997) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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