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Penthetria subterranea

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia subterranea was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Bale Museum R 868, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kleinkembs, which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl/limestone in the Salt Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Penthetria subterranea by Skartveit and Nel (2017), Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Plecia subterranea Theobald p. 233 figs. Pl VI fig 12; Pl XVII fig 16
2017Penthetria subterranea Skartveit and Nel p. 34 figs. 18, 103-106
2021Penthetria subterranea Skartveit and Wedmann p. 18 fig. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
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)
genusPenthetria
speciessubterranea()

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.

Penthetria subterranea 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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Rupelian to the top of the Chattian or 33.90000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3Germany Plecia subterranea (type locality: 122407)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) Penthetria subterranea (113712)