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Ornithomya

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Description

Ornithomya are genus of biting flies in the family of louse flies, Hippoboscidae. There are 29 known species. All species are parasites of birds.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1638350	https://www.gbif.org/species/1638350
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	217617	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=217617

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Hippoboscidae : Ornithomya

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
-	Calyptratae	Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
family	Hippoboscidae	Samouelle 1819
genus	Ornithomya	Latreille 1802

Scientific Name

Ornithomya Latreille, 1802

Name Published In

Latreille, Pierre A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. rédigé par C. S. Sonnini. F. Dufart, Paris. Vol. 3: i-xii; 13-467.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ornithomya	genus	belongs to Coriaceae	stated with evidence	Latreille, 1802
Ornithomya	genus	belongs to Hippoboscidae	stated with evidence	Maa, 1966

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ornithomya alpicola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya ambigua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya anchineura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya aobatonis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya apelta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya areolata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya avicularia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya biloba species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya candida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya cecropis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya chloropus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya comosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya extensa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya fringillina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya fur species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya fuscipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya gigantea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya greeni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya hoffmannae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya inocellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya marginalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya medinalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya montivaga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya nigricornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya opposita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya papillosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya parva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya pusilla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya rottensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Ornithomya roubaudi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya rupes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithomya sorbens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithoponus rottensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Ornithymia Bezzi, 1905	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Hippoboscidae : *Ornithymia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1802	Ornithomya Latreille p. 466
1966	Ornithomya Maa

References

Latreille P. A. , Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième, 1-467

Maa T. C. (1966) Redescription of the fossil Ornithomya rottensis (Statz) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), Pacific Insects Monograph 10, 3-9

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/Stang, 2004-present - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Fauna Europaea (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4. Web Service available online at http://www.faunaeur.org - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Sonnini's Buffon, Ins., 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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