Global InformationPintomyia falcaorum information
| Pintomyia falcaorum Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Order: | Diptera
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| Family: | Psychodidae
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| Subfamily: | Phlebotominae
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| Genus: | Pintomyia
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| Subgenus: | Pifanomyia
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| Species: | † P. falcaorum
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| Binomial name | |
| Pintomyia falcaorum Brazil & Andrade Filho, 2002
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Pintomyia falcaorum is an extinct species of sandfly in the moth fly subfamily Phlebotominae.[1] P. falcaorum is solely known from early Miocene Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.[1][2]
- ^ a b Brazil, R. P.; Andrade Filho, J. D. (2002). "Description of Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) falcaorum sp. n. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), a fossil sand fly from Dominican amber". Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 97 (4): 501–503. doi:10.1590/s0074-02762002000400008. PMID 12118279.
- ^ Iturralde-Vinent, M. A.; MacPhee, R. D. E. (1996). "Age and Paleogeographical Origin of Dominican Amber". Science. 273 (5283): 1850–1852. Bibcode:1996Sci...273.1850I. doi:10.1126/science.273.5283.1850. S2CID 129754021.