Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Synonym: Idioplasta Osten Sacken 1859

Full reference: C. R. Osten Sacken. 1860. New genera and species of North American Tipulidae with short palpi, with an attempt at a new classification of the tribe. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1859:197-256

Parent taxon: Tanyderidae according to K. Skibińska 2016

See also Aldrich 1905 and Coquillett 1910

Sister taxa: Bamara, Bruchomyiinae, Cretapsychoda, Culex proavitus, Datziinae, Eochaoborites, Eophlebotomus, Horaiellinae, Liassopsychodina, Libanopsychoda, Mesopsychoda, Paraculicoides, Paraculicoides rouseae, Phlebotominae, Plebotomites, Plebotomus, Posthon, Psychodinae, Psychodites, Sycoracinae, Tanyderinae, Tanypsycha, Triassopsychoda, Trichomyiinae, Xenopsychoda, Tanyderites

Subtaxa: none

Ecology:

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Protoplasa in the database

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