Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Synonym: Epiplecia Giard 1879
Parent taxon: Pleciinae according to J. Skartveit and S. Wedmann 2021
See also Aldrich 1905, Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1921, Cockerell 1925, Evenhuis 1994, Fitzgerald 2004, Hong and Wang 1985, James 1937, James 1938, Meunier 1923, Nel et al. 2019, Pongrácz 1931, Rice 1959, Skartveit 2009, Skartveit and Ansorge 2020, Statz 1943, Theobald 1937, Wappler 2003, Zeuner 1941 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Cretpenthetria, Fushunoplecia, Lichnoplecia, Protopenthetria, Cascoplecia
Subtaxa: Bibio cylindratus Clothonopsis Clothonopsis miocenica Plecia acourti Plecia aculeolata 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
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (3 collections)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), Japan (2)
• Miocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Bulgaria (1), China (6), Croatia (4), the Czech Republic (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Germany (5), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (1)
• Oligocene of France (38), Germany (10), United States (2: Montana)
• Eocene of Canada (21: British Columbia), France (4), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (16: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Manitoba)
Total: 130 collections including 380 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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