Hexatoma

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Nematocera
Infraordo: Tipulomorpha
Superfamilia: Tipuloidea

Familia: Limoniidae
Subfamilia: Limnophilinae
Genus: Hexatoma
Subgenera: H. (Cladolipes) - H. (Coreozelia) - H. (Eriocera) - H. (Euhexatoma) - H. (Hexatoma) - H. (Parahexatoma)
Name

Hexatoma Latreille, 1809

Synonyms

Nematocera Meigen, 1818
Gender: feminine
Type speciesNematocera bicolor Meigen, 1818
Fixation: subsequent designation by Stephens in Richardson (1836: 470)

References

Evenhuis, N.L. 2010: Type designations of Diptera (Insecta) in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Zootaxa, 2653: 37–50. Preview
Podeniene, V. & Gelhaus, J.K. 2015. Review of the last instar larvae and pupae of Hexatoma (Eriocera) and Hexatoma (Hexatoma) (Diptera, Limoniidae, Limnophilinae). Zootaxa 4021(1): 63–118. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page.