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Plecia minutula

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia minutula was named by Rice (1959). Its type specimen is GSC 14422, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 40 feet above Pleasant Valley No. 2 Mine Portal, Tulameen River, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine horizon in the Allenby Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Plecia minutula Rice p. 8 figs. Pl I fig 3ab; Fig 3 No. 7

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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
genusPleciaWiedemann 1823
speciesminutula

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.

†Plecia minutula Rice 1959
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available