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Hyalistata

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4791869	https://www.gbif.org/species/4791869
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	221356	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=221356

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Drosophilidae : Hyalistata

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
-	Schizophora	Becher 1882
superfamily	Ephydroidea	Zetterstedt 1837
family	Drosophilidae	Rondani 1856
subfamily	Steganinae
tribe	Gitonini	Grimaldi 1990
genus	Hyalistata	Wheeler 1960

Scientific Name

Hyalistata Wheeler, 1960

Name Published In

Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 55

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Hyalistata	subgenus	belongs to Pseudiastata	stated with evidence	Grimaldi, 1990
Hyalistata	genus	belongs to Acletoxenina	stated with evidence	Grimaldi, 1993
Hyalistata	genus	belongs to Gitonini	stated with evidence	Yassin, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. Grimaldi. 1993. Amber Fossil Drosophilidae (Diptera), Part II: Review of the Genus Hyalistata, New Status (Steganinae). American Museum Novitates 3084:1-15

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hyalistata dominica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hyalistata floridana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hyalistata pallida ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Hyalistata vitrea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1960	Pseudiastata (Hyalistata) Wheeler
1990	Pseudiastata (Hyalistata) Grimaldi
1993	Hyalistata Grimaldi
2013	Hyalistata Yassin p. 356

References

Grimaldi D. (1993) Amber Fossil Drosophilidae (Diptera), Part II: Review of the Genus Hyalistata, New Status (Steganinae), American Museum Novitates 3084, 1-15

Grimaldi D. A. (1990) A phylogenetic, revised classification of genera in the Drosophilidae (Diptera), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 197, 1-139

Yassin A. (2013) Phylogenetic classification of the Drosophilidae Rondani (Diptera): the role of morphology in the postgenomic era, Systematic Entomology 38, 349-364

Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 55 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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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