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Protomyia stygia

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia stygia was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). 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 stygia by Förster (1891), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994), Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia stygia von Heyden and von Heyden p. 24 figs. Pl 9, figs 1-3
1865Protomyia veterana von Heyden and von Heyden p. 25 figs. Pl 8, fig 10
1891Plecia stygia Förster p. 476 figs. Pl 14, figs 18,19
1920Protomyia veterana Meunier p. 736 figs. Pl 2, fig 12
1943Plecia veterana Statz pp. 18-19 figs. Pl V fig 49
1943Plecia stygia Statz p. 23 figs. Pl VII fig 62
1994Plecia stygia Evenhuis
1994Plecia veterana Evenhuis
2021Plecia stygia Skartveit and Wedmann p. 38 figs. 59, 60, 169-171

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyHesperininae(Walker 1848)
genusProtomyia
speciesstygia

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.

Protomyia stygia von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: MP 30 or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3027.3 - 23.04Germany Protomyia stygia (type locality: 123945 154946)