Biology:Archaeterphis

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Short description: Extinct genus of flies

Archaeterphis
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification edit
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Arthropoda
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Archaeterphis
Hauser & Winterton, 2007[1]
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Binomial name
Archaeterphis hennigi
Hauser & Winterton, 2007[1]

Archaeterphis is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. It is known from Baltic amber from the Eocene, though the locality is unknown (possibly Russia ).[2] It contains only one species, Archaeterphis hennigi.[1]

The generic name is a combination of the Greek word Arche (beginning) and Terphis, referring to the possible close relationship of Archaeterphis with the extant genera Africaterphis and Terphis. The species is named in honor of Willi Hennig.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hauser, Martin; Winterton, Shaun L. (2007). "A New Fossil Genus of Small-Headed Flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic Amber". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100 (2): 152–156. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[152:ANFGOS2.0.CO;2]. 
  2. Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566. 

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