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Penthetria lugens

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia lugens was named by Oustalet (1870). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Corent (MNHN collection), which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl in France.

It was recombined as Plecia lugens by Theobald (1937); it was recombined as Penthetria lugens by Evenhuis (1994), Skartveit and Nel (2017) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Protomyia lugens Oustalet p. 142 figs. Pl 6, figs 2,3
1937Plecia lugens Theobald p. 227 figs. Pl XVI fig 19, 20
1994Penthetria lugens Evenhuis
2017Penthetria lugens Skartveit and Nel p. 31 figs. 14,15, 95-97
2021Penthetria lugens Skartveit and Wedmann p. 15 fig. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyHesperininae(Walker 1848)
genusPenthetria
specieslugens()

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 lugens Oustalet 1870
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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 MP 23 to the top of the Chattian or 33.90000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 2333.9 - 28.4France Plecia lugens (122536)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Germany Plecia lugens (122407)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1France (Auvergne) Protomyia lugens (127630)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Plecia lugens (122488)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) Plecia lugens (122501 138838)