Chimeromyina Arillo & Grimaldi

Grimaldi, David A., Cumming, Jeffrey M. & Arillo, Antonio, 2009, Chimeromyiidae, a new family of Eremoneuran Diptera from the Cretaceous, Zootaxa 2078, pp. 34-54 : 48

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.187264

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6222208

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/270087AD-5239-FFA1-FF22-686F38F3F8DE

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scientific name

Chimeromyina Arillo & Grimaldi
status

gen. nov.

Chimeromyina Arillo & Grimaldi , gen. nov.

Diagnosis. At present, defined only on the basis of characters that are symplesiomorphic with respect to Chimeromyia: Arista terminal, with 3 aristomeres; wing with crossveins r-m and bm-cu separated by distance approximately equal to length of r-m; cell dm present, large, with crossvein dm-cu; vein CuA2, cell cu p and A1[+ CuA2?] present; anal lobe and alula present.

Type Species. Chimeromyina concilia , n.sp.

Etymology. Derived from the name of the sister genus, Chimeromyia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Opetiidae

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