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Leptoconopinae

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)213285https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=213285
Ranksubfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Ceratopogonidae : Leptoconopinae
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
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidaeNewman 1834
subfamilyLeptoconopinaeNoe 1907
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Leptoconopinaesubfamilybelongs to Ceratopogonidaestated with evidenceSzadziewski, 1988
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)60
Extant Size (PBDB)4 (6.7%)
First Recorded Appearance145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. Szadziewski. 1990. Biting midges (Insecta: Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Sakhalin amber. Prace Muzeum Ziemi 41:77-82

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Archiaustroconops ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		28145 Ma
Late Jurassic		99.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Austroconops
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		19130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous		0 Ma
Extant
Fossileptoconops ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous		130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Jordanoconops ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous		113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Leptoconops
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		35129 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous		0 Ma
Extant
Minyohelea ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		15133 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous		83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1907Leptoconopinae Noe
1987Austroconopinae Borkent et al. p. 588
1988Leptoconopinae Szadziewski p. 231
1990Leptoconopinae Szadziewski p. 79
1992Austroconopinae Szadziewski and Schlüter p. 78
1996Austroconopinae Szadziewski p. 32
1996Leptoconopinae Szadziewski p. 46
1997Leptoconopinae Borkent and Wirth p. 16
YearName and Author
1997Austroconopinae Borkent and Wirth p. 21
2013Leptoconopinae Borkent p. 11
2014Leptoconopinae Choufani et al. p. 35
2015Leptoconopinae Choufani et al. p. 279
2015Leptoconopinae Szadziewski et al. p. 256
2015Leptoconopinae Szadziewski et al. p. 557
2018Leptoconopinae Dominiak et al. p. 232
2018Leptoconopinae Pielowska et al. p. 241

References

Szadziewski R. (1990) Biting midges (Insecta: Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Sakhalin amber, Prace Muzeum Ziemi 41, 77-82
Szadziewski R. (1988) Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber, Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57, 3-283
Szadziewski R., Schlüter T. (1992) Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of France, Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 28, 73-81
Szadziewski R. (1996) Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae), Studia Dipterologica 3, 23-86
Borkent A. (2013) , World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
Choufani J., Perrichot V., et al (2014) New biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Late Cretaceous Vendean amber, Paleontological Contributions 10, 34-40
Choufani J., Azar D., et al (2015) New biting midges from the Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 50, 272-285
Szadziewski R., Gika W., et al (2015) A blood sucking biting midge from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber with a key to the determination of fossil species in the relictual genus Leptoconops Skuse (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Cretaceous Research 54, 255-259
Szadziewski R., Ross A. J., et al (2015) Further records of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Myanmar), Cretaceous Research 52, 556-561
Dominiak P., Szadziewski R., et al (2018) A new species of the haematophagous genus Austroconops Wirth & Lee (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Leptoconopinae) from middle Cretaceous amber of Charente-Maritime, France, Cretaceous Research 92, 231-239
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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