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Plecia angustiventris

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia angustiventris was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Marseilles Museum C79, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine marl in France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Plecia angustiventris Theobald p. 135 figs. Pl II fig 4; Pl XI fig 14
2017Plecia angustiventris Skartveit and Nel p. 80

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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
speciesangustiventris

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 angustiventris Theobald 1937
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Eocene or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9France Plecia angustiventris (type locality: 113709)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9France (Gard) Plecia angustiventris (122406)