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Plecia castellaroi

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia castellaroi was named by Gentilini (1991). Its type specimen is MTR 1236, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Monte Castellaro (MTR collection), which is in a Messinian lagoonal marl in the Gessoso-solfifera Formation of Italy.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1991Plecia castellaroi Gentilini p. 426 fig. 1

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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
speciescastellaroi

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 castellaroi Gentilini 1991
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available