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Agathomyia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1445346	https://www.gbif.org/species/1445346
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	393348	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=393348

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Platypezidae : Agathomyia

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
superfamily	Platypezoidea	Fallen 1815
family	Platypezidae	Fallen 1815
genus	Agathomyia	Verrall

Scientific Name

Agathomyia Verrall

Name Published In

Brit. Flies, 8

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Agathomyia	genus	belongs to Platypezidae	stated with evidence	Tkoč, 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. H. Verral. 1901. A List of British Diptera

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Agathomyia aestiva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia alaskensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia alneti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia antennata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia aquilonia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia argentata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia arossi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia aurantiaca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia austrocollinella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia aversa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia bella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia bellatula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia boreella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia brooksi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia canadensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia cinerea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia colei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia collini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia cushmani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia decolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia dichroa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia divergens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia dubia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia elegantula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia eocenica ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Agathomyia falleni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia fenderi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia fulva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia gorodkovi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia helvella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia intermedia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia laffooni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia leechi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia lucifuga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia lundbecki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia lutea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia macneilli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia monticola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia nemophila species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia nigriventris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia obscura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia perplex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia perplexa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia pluvialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia pulchella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia semirubra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia setipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia sexmaculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia shatalkini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia stonei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia sylvania species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia talpula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia tephrea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia thoracica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia tibialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia umacibise species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia unicolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia vanduzeei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia vernalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia viduella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia wankowiczii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia woodella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia zetterstedti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agathomyia zonula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1901	Agathomyia Verral p. 20
2019	Agathomyia Tko? p. 34

References

Verral G. H. (1901) , A List of British Diptera, 1-47

Tkoč M. (2019) Taxonomic names, in Diptera of the middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation. I. Documentation of diversity at the family level, Palaeontologia Electronica 22 2.50A, 1-56

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

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

Pape, F.C. (2015) Systema Dipterorum, a biosystematic database of world Diptera. Online: http://www.diptera.org/About.php - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Brit. Flies, 8 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2015) Fauna Europaea version 2.6. Web Service available online at http://www.faunaeur.org - 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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