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Spelobia

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Description

Spelobia is a genus of flies belonging to the family of the Lesser Dung flies.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1589723	https://www.gbif.org/species/1589723
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	297164	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=297164

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Sphaeroceridae : Spelobia

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
family	Sphaeroceridae	Macquart 1835
subfamily	Limosininae	Frey 1921
genus	Spelobia	Spuler 1924

Scientific Name

Spelobia Spuler, 1924

Name Published In

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 75, 1923

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Spelobia	genus	belongs to Sphaeroceridae	stated with evidence	Marshall, 1999
Spelobia	genus	belongs to Limosininae	stated with evidence	Roháek et al., 2001

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. A. Marshall. 1999. Taxonomic names, in New species of Sphaeroceridae (Insecta: Diptera) in Dominican amber. Studia Dipterologica 6:295-304

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Spelobia abundans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia acadiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia aciculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia algida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia beadyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia belanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia bifrons species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia bispina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia brevipteryx species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia brunealata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia bumamma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia clunipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia curvata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia curvipecta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia depilicercus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia faeroensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia frustrilabris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia fungivora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia hirsuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia hungarica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia ibrida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia lucifuga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia luteilabris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia maculipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia mexicana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia multihama species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia nigrifrons species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia nudiprocta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia occidentalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia ochripes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia ordinaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia ovata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia palaeobrevipteryx ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Spelobia pappi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia peltata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia pickeringi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia pseudosetaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia pulliforma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia quadrata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia quaesita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia quinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia rimata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia robinsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia sejuncta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia semioculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia talis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia tenebrarum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia tuberculosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia tufta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia typhlops species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spelobia ulla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1924	Spelobia Spuler
1999	Spelobia Marshall p. 296
2001	Spelobia Roháek et al. p. 254

References

Marshall S. A. (1999) Taxonomic names, in New species of Sphaeroceridae (Insecta: Diptera) in Dominican amber, Studia Dipterologica 6, 295-304

Roháek J., Marshall S. A., et al (2001) , World Catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera), 1-394

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

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 75, 1923 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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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