Plecia aculeolata Zhang 1989 (love bug)

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Full reference: J. F. Zhang. 1989. Fossil Insects From Shanwang, Shandong, China 1-459

Belongs to Plecia according to J. F. Zhang 1989

Sister taxa: Bibio cylindratus, Clothonopsis, Clothonopsis miocenica, Plecia acourti, Plecia akerionana, Plecia amagua, Plecia angustipennis, Plecia angustiventris, Plecia assonensis, Plecia avus, Plecia axeliana, Plecia baglii, Plecia bivalvula, Plecia borussica, Plecia brunneipennis, Plecia brunniptera, Plecia bucklandi, Plecia cairnesi, Plecia canadensis, Plecia capitata, Plecia castellaroi, Plecia chapuisii, Plecia clavifemur, Plecia collossea, Plecia conica, Plecia curtula, Plecia decapitata, Plecia dejecta, Plecia diatoma, Plecia dilatata, Plecia dubia, Plecia dumasi, Plecia elatior, Plecia exigua, Plecia explanata, Plecia exposititia, Plecia foersteri, Plecia fumosa, Plecia gracilenta, Plecia gracilentula, Plecia gracillima, Plecia gradata, Plecia grossa, Plecia hilaris, Plecia hoffeinsorum, Plecia hypogaea, Plecia inflata, Plecia inflata, Plecia intima, Plecia joannis, Plecia jucunda, Plecia kanetakii, Plecia kelownaensis, Plecia kudiella, Plecia kuznetzovi, Plecia larguensis, Plecia larteti, Plecia livida, Plecia longipennis, Plecia luctuosa, Plecia ludongensis, Plecia lugubris, Plecia luteola, Plecia lygaeoides, Plecia macilenta, Plecia macrocephala, Plecia maimensis, Plecia melanderi, Plecia minutula, Plecia morio, Plecia myersi, Plecia nana, Plecia obsitula, Plecia orycta, Plecia oustaleti, Plecia painvini, Plecia pallida, Plecia parisiensis, Plecia pealei, Plecia pennata, Plecia pictipennis, Plecia pinguis, Plecia pisaurensis, Plecia platoptera, Plecia platyptera, Plecia prisca, Plecia pristina, Plecia proserpina, Plecia pulchra, Plecia pulla, Plecia quaesita, Plecia rectivenia, Plecia redempta, Plecia reducta, Plecia refracta, Plecia retracta, Plecia rhenana, Plecia rhodopterina, Plecia rubescens, Plecia sauvagei, Plecia similkameena, Plecia sluiteri, Plecia solaris, Plecia spinula, Plecia sturmi, Plecia stygia, Plecia tessella, Plecia theobaldi, Plecia transitoria, Plecia tulameenensis, Plecia undans, Plecia vergnei, Plecia villosa, Plecia volgeri, Plecia vulcania, Plecia winchesteri, Plecia winnertzi, Plecia woodruffi

Type specimen: s82651, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection s (Shandong Provincial Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Shanwang, Linqu County, collection s (Shandong Provincial Museum)

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