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Plecia rhodopterina

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia rhodopterina was named by Cockerell (1925). Its type specimen is USNM 69177, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is East Alkali Gulch head, south of De Beque, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Plecia rhodopterina Cockerell p. 6 figs. Pl 2, fig 6

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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
speciesrhodopterina

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 rhodopterina Cockerell 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available