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Plecia luctuosa

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia luctuosa was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58792, 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 luctuosa by Theobald (1937), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994), Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia luctuosa von Heyden and von Heyden p. 22 figs. Pl 8, fig 7
1937Plecia luctuosa Theobald p. 230
1943Plecia luctuosa Statz p. 15 figs. Pl VI fig 53
1994Plecia luctuosa Evenhuis
2021Plecia luctuosa Skartveit and Wedmann p. 29 figs. 41, 42, 130-137

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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
subfamilyPleciinaeDuda 1930
genusPleciaWiedemann 1823
speciesluctuosa()

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 luctuosa 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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the Chattian or 33.90000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3France Plecia grossa (121473) Plecia luctuosa (122408)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Plecia sp. 4 (122010)
MP 3027.3 - 23.04Germany Protomyia luctuosa (type locality: 123945 154946)