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Plecia akerionana

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia akerionana was named by Fitzgerald (1999). Its type specimen is USNM 498201, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Plecia akerionana Fitzgerald p. 182 figs. 1-3

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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
speciesakerionana

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 akerionana Fitzgerald 1999
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available