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Protomyia stygia
Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Taxonomy
Protomyia stygia was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). 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 stygia by Förster (1891), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
It was recombined as Plecia stygia by Förster (1891), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1865 | Protomyia stygia von Heyden and von Heyden p. 24 figs. Pl 9, figs 1-3 |
| 1865 | Protomyia veterana von Heyden and von Heyden p. 25 figs. Pl 8, fig 10 |
| 1891 | Plecia stygia Förster p. 476 figs. Pl 14, figs 18,19 |
| 1920 | Protomyia veterana Meunier p. 736 figs. Pl 2, fig 12 |
| 1943 | Plecia veterana Statz pp. 18-19 figs. Pl V fig 49 |
| 1943 | Plecia stygia Statz p. 23 figs. Pl VII fig 62 |
| 1994 | Plecia stygia Evenhuis |
| 1994 | Plecia veterana Evenhuis |
| 2021 | Plecia stygia Skartveit and Wedmann p. 38 figs. 59, 60, 169-171 |
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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.
†Protomyia stygia von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available