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Sycoracinae

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)181515https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=181515
Ranksubfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Psychodidae : Sycoracinae
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-Holometabola
-Aparaglossata
-Mecopterida
superorderAntliophora
orderDipteraLinnaeus 1758
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidaeNewman 1834
subfamilySycoracinaeJung 1954
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Sycoracinaesubfamilybelongs to Psychodidaestated with evidenceAzar et al., 2007
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)15
Extant Size (PBDB)4 (27%)
First Recorded Appearance99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)D. Azar, A. Tahchy, and V. Perrichot. 2007. The oldest Sycoracinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the French Cretaceous Amber. Alavesia 1:5-10

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Palaeoparasycorax ✝
genus		doubtful (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		299.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous		99.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Parasycorax
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		199.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous		0 Ma
Extant
Sycorax
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		699.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous		0 Ma
Extant
Xenosycorax ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		193.9 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous		93.9 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1917Trichomyia swinhoei Cockerell p. 21 fig. 4
1954Sycoracinae Jung
1972Trichomyia swinhoei Hennig p. 65
2000Trichomyia swinhoei Ross and York p. 13 fig. 15
2007Sycoracinae Azar et al.
2013Sycoracinae Azar et al. p. 29
2015Sycoracinae Azar and Salamé p. 542
2015Sycoracinae Stebner et al. p. 13
2018Sycoracinae Pielowska et al. p. 243

References

Azar D., Tahchy A., et al (2007) The oldest Sycoracinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the French Cretaceous Amber, Alavesia 1, 5-10
Cockerell T. D. A. (1917) Fossil insects, Annals of the Entomological Society of America 10, 1-22
Hennig W. (1972) Insektenfossilien aus der unteren Kreide IV. Psychodidae (Phlebotominae), mit einer kritischen Übersicht über das phylogenetische System der Familie und die bisher beschriebenen Fossilien (Diptera), Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde 241, 1-69
Ross A. J., York P. V. (2000) A list of type and figured specimens of insects and other inclusions in Burmese amber, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 56, 11-20
Azar D., Nel A., et al (2013) A new Sycorax species from Eocene Ukrainian Rovno amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Sycoracinae), Insect Evolution in an Ambiferous and Stone Alphabet, 27-46
Azar D., Salamé Y. (2015) A new genus of Sycoracinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Upper Cretaceous amber of New Jersey, Cretaceous Research 52, 539-547
Stebner F., Solórzano Kraemer M. M., et al (2015) Moth flies and sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber, PeerJ 3 e1254, 1-34
Pielowska A., Sontag E., et al (2018) Haematophagous arthropods in Baltic amber, Annales Zoologici 68, 237-249
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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