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Archiaustroconops ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1633620	https://www.gbif.org/species/1633620
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	213307	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=213307

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Ceratopogonidae : Archiaustroconops

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
infraorder	Culicomorpha
superfamily	Chironomoidea	Macquart 1838
family	Ceratopogonidae	Newman 1834
subfamily	Leptoconopinae	Noe 1907
genus	Archiaustroconops	Szadziewski 1996

Scientific Name

Archiaustroconops Szadziewski, 1996

Name Published In

Stud Dipterol 3 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Archiaustroconops	genus	belongs to Austroconopinae	stated with evidence	Szadziewski, 1996
Archiaustroconops	genus	belongs to Leptoconopinae	stated with evidence	Pérez-de la Fuente et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last 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)

R. Szadziewski. 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae). Studia Dipterologica 3:23-86

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Archiaustroconops alavensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops andersoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops annae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops besti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Archiaustroconops bocaparvus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops borkenti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops ceratoformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops dominiakae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops hammanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops hamus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops kotejai ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archiaustroconops szadziewskii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Austroconops cretaceous ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Protoculicoides krzeminskii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1996	Archiaustroconops Szadziewski p. 34
1997	Archiaustroconops Borkent and Wirth p. 21
2011	Archiaustroconops Pérez-de la Fuente et al. p. 755
2013	Archiaustroconops Borkent p. 11
2015	Archiaustroconops Choufani et al. p. 279
2015	Archiaustroconops Szadziewski et al. p. 557

References

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

Pérez-de la Fuente R., Delclòs X., et al (2011) Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Early Cretaceous El Soplao amber (N Spain), Cretaceous Research 32, 750-761

Borkent A. (2013) , World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

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., Ross A. J., et al (2015) Further records of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Myanmar), Cretaceous Research 52, 556-561

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/Stang, 2004-present - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Stud Dipterol 3 (1) - 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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