Published December 31, 2009 | Version v1
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Chimeromyina Arillo & Grimaldi, gen. nov.

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Grimaldi, David A., Cumming, Jeffrey M. & Arillo, Antonio, 2009, Chimeromyiidae, a new family of Eremoneuran Diptera from the Cretaceous, pp. 34-54 in Zootaxa 2078 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187264

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Biodiversity

Family
Opetiidae
Genus
Chimeromyina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Arillo & Grimaldi
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Chimeromyina Grimaldi & Arillo, 2009