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Plecia proserpina

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia proserpina was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58793, 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 proserpina by Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia proserpina von Heyden and von Heyden p. 22 figs. Pl 8, fig 7
1943Plecia proserpina Statz pp. 17-18 figs. Pl VI fig 55
1994Plecia proserpina Evenhuis
2021Plecia proserpina Skartveit and Wedmann p. 34 figs. 54, 156, 157

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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
speciesproserpina()

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 proserpina von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
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