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Plecia refracta

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia refracta was named by Cockerell (1925). Its type specimen is USNM 69608, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kudia River, which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - small shale/diatomite in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Plecia refracta Cockerell p. 14 figs. Pl 2 fg 21

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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
speciesrefracta

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 refracta Cockerell 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available