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Silvius

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Silvius may refer to:

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1500840	https://www.gbif.org/species/1500840
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138866	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138866

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Tabanidae : Silvius

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
-	Homeodactyla
infraorder	Tabanomorpha	Hennig 1948
family	Tabanidae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Chrysopsinae	Lutz 1905
tribe	Chrysopsini	Lutz 1905
genus	Silvius	Meigen 1820

Scientific Name

Silvius Meigen, 1820

Name Published In

Syst. Beschr. zweifl. Insekt., 2

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Silvius	genus	belongs to Tabanidae	stated with evidence	Aldrich, 1905
Silvius	genus	belongs to Tabanidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Silvius	genus	belongs to Chrysopsini	stated with evidence	Morita et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

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/Silvius

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Silvius abdominalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius algirus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius alpinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius anchoricallus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius appendiculatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius aquila species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius atitlanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius ceras species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius ceylonicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius cordicallus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius dorsalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius formosensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius formosiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius gibsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius gigantulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius graecus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius indianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius inflaticornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius jeanae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius laticornis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Silvius latifrons species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius matsumurai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius megaceras species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius merychippi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Silvius microcephalus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius notatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius ochraceus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius olsufjevi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius omeishanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius ornatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius oshimaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius peculiaris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius philipi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius pollinosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius quadrivittatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius sayi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius shirakii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius suifui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius tanyceras species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius tanycerus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius trifolium species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius variegatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Silvius zaitzevi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tabanus merychippi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1820	Silvius Meigen p. 27
1905	Silvius Aldrich p. 194
1946	Silvius Melander p. 43
1992	Silvius Carpenter
2016	Silvius Morita et al.

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

Melander A. L. (1946) Some fossil Diptera from Florissant, Colorado, Psyche 53, 43-48

Morita S. I., Bayless K. M., et al (2016) Molecular phylogeny of the horse flies: a framework for renewing tabanid taxonomy, Systematic Entomology 41, 56-72

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

Syst. Beschr. zweifl. Insekt., 2 - 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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