Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Alternative combination: Bibio elongatipennis
Synonyms: Bibio macerata Theobald 1937, Bibio maceratus Theobald 1937
Full reference: N. Theobald. 1937. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Bulletin Mensuel (Mémoires) de la Société des Sciences de Nancy 1:1-473
Belongs to Penthetria according to J. Skartveit and A. Nel 2017
See also Evenhuis 1994 and Theobald 1937
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 carbonum, Penthetria cimicoides, Penthetria claripennis, Penthetria creedensis, Penthetria egerana, 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, Protomyia matheroni, Protomyia grossa, Protomyia stygia, Bibiopsis funebris, Bibiopsis murchisonii
Type specimens:
- Penthetria elongatipennis: Marseilles Museum C71, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine marl in France.
- Bibio maceratus: Marseilles Museum C57, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine marl in France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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