Palaeoargyra is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Baltic amber. It contains only one species, Palaeoargyra mutabilis. It was originally proposed as a subgenus of Argyra, but was later considered a separate genus.[2]
| Palaeoargyra Temporal range: Eocene (Priabonian),
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Diaphorinae |
| Genus: | †Palaeoargyra Meunier, 1895 |
| Species: | †P. mutabilis
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| †Palaeoargyra mutabilis (Meunier, 1907)[1]
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No type species had been designated for the genus until 1994, when Neal Evenhuis described P. dytei. However, in 2014, Igor Grichanov found that the genus had apparently been proposed for Argyra mutabilis, and that P. dytei was a synonym of this species.[2]
References
edit- ^ Meunier, F. (1907). "Monographie des Dolichopodidæ de l'ambre de la Baltique". Le Naturaliste: Revue illustrée des sciences naturelles. 2 (in French). 21 (29): 209–211.
- ^ a b c Grichanov, I. Ya.; Negrobov, O. P.; Selivanova, O. V. (2014). "Two new genera of Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Baltic amber and some new combinations" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 23 (1): 61–70. doi:10.15298/rusentj.23.1.08.
Evenhuis, N.L. (2 Apr 2014). "Family Dolichopodidae". Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. 2.0.
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