Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Alternative combinations: Bibiopsis carbonum, Plecia (Bibiopsis) carbonum, Plecia carbonum

Full reference: C. von Heyden and L. von Heyden. 1865. Fossile Insekten aus der Braunkohle von Salzhausen. Palaeontographica 14:31-35

Belongs to Penthetria according to S. J. Fitzgerald 2004

See also Evenhuis 1994, Meunier 1917, Meunier 1923 and von Heyden and von Heyden 1865

Sister taxa: Bibio alacris, Bibio gigas, Bibio macer, Bibio minor, Penthetria abacula, Penthetria aestimata, Penthetria alderensis, Penthetria amoena, Penthetria anthracina, Penthetria beskonakensis, Penthetria blanchardi, Penthetria bohemica, Penthetria brevicollis, Penthetria cimicoides, Penthetria claripennis, Penthetria creedensis, Penthetria egerana, Penthetria elongatipennis, Penthetria fryi, Penthetria fuchsi, Penthetria gigantea, Penthetria globularis, Penthetria gracilis, Penthetria graciliventris, Penthetria immutabilis, Penthetria imperialis, Penthetria incerta, Penthetria integroneura, Penthetria intermedia, Penthetria longa, Penthetria longifurca, Penthetria longiventris, Penthetria luberonica, Penthetria lugens, Penthetria montanaregis, Penthetria murchisonii, Penthetria nervisinuata, Penthetria nigra, Penthetria parschlugiana, Penthetria rubescens, Penthetria rubiensis, Penthetria subterranea, Penthetria togoensis, Penthetria tropica, Penthetria velutina, Penthetria whipsawensis, Bibiopsis funebris, Bibiopsis murchisonii, Protomyia grossa, Protomyia matheroni, Protomyia stygia

Type specimen: Its type locality is Salzhausen, which is in a Miocene terrestrial siliciclastic in Germany

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