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Plecia sturmi

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia sturmi was named by Statz (1943). Its type specimen is LACMIP 3425, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Statz Collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - small shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1943Plecia sturmi Statz p. 20 figs. Pl I fig 5; Pl VI fig 54
2021Plecia sturmi Skartveit and Wedmann p. 37 figs. 58, 166-168

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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
speciessturmi

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 sturmi Statz 1943
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Diagnosis
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