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Protomyia grossa
Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Taxonomy
Protomyia grossa was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58791, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.
It was recombined as Plecia grossa by Förster (1891), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
It was recombined as Plecia grossa by Förster (1891), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1865 | Protomyia grossa von Heyden and von Heyden p. 22 figs. Pl 8, fig 5 |
| 1891 | Plecia grossa Förster p. 476 figs. Pl 14, fig 17 |
| 1943 | Plecia grossa Statz pp. 21-22 figs. Pl VII fig 58 |
| 1994 | Plecia grossa Evenhuis |
| 2021 | Plecia grossa Skartveit and Wedmann p. 26 figs. 32, 120, 121 |
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†Protomyia grossa von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available