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Dicranoptycha

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Dicranoptycha is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7498266	https://www.gbif.org/species/7498266
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138164	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138164

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Limoniidae : Dicranoptycha

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
suborder	Nematocera	Latreille 1825
infraorder	Tipulomorpha
superfamily	Tipuloidea	Latreille 1802
family	Limoniidae	Speiser 1909
subfamily	Limoniinae	Speiser 1909
genus	Dicranoptycha	Osten-Sacken 1860

Scientific Name

Dicranoptycha Osten-Sacken, 1860

Name Published In

Studia Ent. (N. S.) 14: 117

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Dicranoptycha	genus	belongs to Tipulidae	stated with evidence	Aldrich, 1905
Dicranoptycha	genus	belongs to Eriopterinae	stated with evidence	Krzemiski and Gentilini, 1992
Dicranoptycha	genus	belongs to Tipulidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Dicranoptycha	genus	belongs to Eriopterinae	stated with evidence	Krzemiski, 1993
Dicranoptycha	genus	belongs to Limoniidae	stated without evidence	Evenhuis, 1994
Dicranoptycha	genus	belongs to Eriopterinae	stated with evidence	Wappler, 2002
Dicranoptycha	genus	belongs to Limoniinae	stated with evidence	Podenas, 2004

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

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/Dicranoptycha

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dicranoptycha acanthophallus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha acuterebra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha anna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	7.25 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Dicranoptycha atricolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha atripes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha aurogeniculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha australis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha azrael species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha basitarsata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha breviterebra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha buksubaeksaniana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha burmitica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Dicranoptycha byersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha caesia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha cinerascens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha cinereipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha confluens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha costaricensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha diacaena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha diacantha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha edashigeana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha electrina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Dicranoptycha elsa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha europaea ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Dicranoptycha formosensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha fragmentata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Dicranoptycha freidbergi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha fuscescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha geniculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha germana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Dicranoptycha griveandi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha griveaudi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha gyebangsaniana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha harpyia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha hasegawai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha ibo species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha issikina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha keiserae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha kenyana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha kwangtungensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha laevis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha lataurata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha leucopoda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha lignitica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Dicranoptycha linsdalei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha livescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha longipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha luteipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha machidana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha malabarica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha matengoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha megaphallus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Dicranoptycha melampygia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha minima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha mirabilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha natalia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha nigripes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha nigrogenualis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha nigrotibialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha nox species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha occidentalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha osata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Dicranoptycha pachystyla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha pallida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha paralivescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha patens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha phallosomica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha pholiota species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha plicativa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Dicranoptycha polysticta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha prolongata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha pseudocinerea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha quadrivittata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha recurvispina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha robinsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha rottensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Dicranoptycha rubronigra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha savtschenkoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha savtshenkoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha septemtrionis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha sobrina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha spinifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha spinigera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha spinosissima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha squamigera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha stenophallus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha stictoneura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha strictoneura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha stuckenbergi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha stygipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha suensoniana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha tennessa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha tigrina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha trochanterata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha venosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha verticillata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha vulpes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha winnemana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicranoptycha yamata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stibadocerites europaeus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1859	Dicranoptycha Osten-Sacken p. 217
1905	Dicranoptycha Aldrich p. 82
1941	Stibadocerites Zeuner
1992	Dicranoptycha Carpenter
1992	Stibadocerites Carpenter
1992	Dicranoptycha Krzemiński and Gentilini p. 91
1993	Dicranoptycha Krzemiński p. 78
1994	Dicranoptycha Evenhuis

Year	Name and Author
2002	Dicranoptycha Wappler p. 130
2003	Dicranoptycha Wappler p. 150
2004	Dicranoptycha Krzemiński p. 123
2004	Dicranoptycha Podenas p. 458
2015	Dicranoptycha Kania p. 78
2015	Dicranoptycha Kania et al. p. 523
2016	Dicranoptycha Gao et al. p. 43
2019	Dicranoptycha Krzemi?ski p. 517

References

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

Aldrich J. M. (1905) A catalogue of North American Diptera (or two-winged flies), Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 46 2, 1-680

Zeuner F. E. (1941) The Eocene Insects of the Ardtun Beds, Isle of Mull, Scotland, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 7, 82-100

Krzemiski W., Gentilini G. (1992) New information on Limoniidae from Monte Castellaro, Italy (Upper Miocene), Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 35, 87-95

Evenhuis N. L. (1994) , Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera), 1-600

Wappler T. (2002) Dicranoptycha (Insecta: Nematocera: Limoniidae) aus der mitteleozänen Fossillagerstätte Eckfelder Maar bei Manderscheid/Eifel (Deutschland), Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 40, 129-134

Wappler T. (2003) Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel, Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 2, 1-241

Krzemiski W. (2004) Fossil Limoniidae (Diptera, Tipulomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2, 123-125

Podenas S. (2004) Dicranoptycha crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene), Transactions of the American Entomological Society 130, 457-462

Kania I. (2015) The taxonomy of selected genera of the subfamily Limoniinae (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene), with notes on their phylogeny, Annales Zoologici 65, 71-100

Kania I., Wang B., et al (2015) Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1860 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the earliest Cenomanian Burmese amber, Cretaceous Research 52, 522-530

Gao J. Q., Shih C. K., et al (2016) New species of Limoniidae (Diptera) from Myanmar amber, Upper Cretaceous, Cretaceous Research 58, 42-48

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

Nilsson, A. (ed.) (1997) - 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 (nonmarine except where stated) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Studia Ent. (N. S.) 14: 117 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Struwe, Ingemar (2008) Svenska Bibionidae och Tipuloidea. Excelfil 081017. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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