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Cascoplecia insolitis

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Cascoplecia insolitis was named by Poinar (2010). Its type specimen is OSU B-D-68, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Cascoplecia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2010Cascoplecia insolitis Poinar

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyPleciinaeDuda 1930
genusCascoplecia
speciesinsolitis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Cascoplecia insolitis Poinar 2010
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available