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Plecia hypogaea

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia hypogaea was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NMHUK In 58803, 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 hypogaea by Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia hypogaea von Heyden and von Heyden p. 23 figs. Pl 9, figs 10,11
1865Protomyia exposititia von Heyden and von Heyden p. 24 figs. Pl 9, figs 7,8
1865Protomyia grandaeva von Heyden and von Heyden p. 25 figs. Pl 8, figs 17,18
1865Protomyia antenata von Heyden and von Heyden p. 26 figs. Pl 9, fig 8
1865Protomyia elongata von Heyden and von Heyden p. 27 figs. Pl 8, fig 14
1915Plecia pulchella Meunier p. 216 figs. Pl 24, fig 3; pl 25, fig 1
1917Protomyia hypogaea Meunier p. 13 figs. Pl 3, fig 10; pl 4, fig 11; text-fig 15
1917Protomyia antenata Meunier p. 14 figs. Pl 4, fig 12; text-figs 16-18
1919Protomyia expositia Meunier p. 147 figs. Pl 10, figs 5,6; text-fig 5
1919Protomyia elongata Meunier p. 148 figs. Pl 11, fig 1; text-fig 6
1943Plecia hypogaea Statz pp. 20-21 figs. Pl VI fig 51
1943Plecia expositia Statz pp. 22-23 figs. Pl VII fig 59
1943Plecia antenata Statz pp. 23-24
1943Plecia grandaeva Statz pp. 25-26 figs. Pl VII fig 65
1994Plecia antenata Evenhuis
1994Plecia elongata Evenhuis
1994Plecia exposita Evenhuis
1994Plecia grandaeva Evenhuis
1994Plecia hypogaea Evenhuis
2021Plecia hypogaea Skartveit and Wedmann p. 27 figs. 33-39, 122-129

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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
specieshypogaea()

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 hypogaea von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Invalid names: Plecia pulchella Meunier 1915 [synonym], Protomyia antenata von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 [synonym], Protomyia elongata von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 [synonym], Protomyia expositia von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 [synonym], Protomyia grandaeva von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 [synonym]
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: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Protomyia exposititia, Protomyia grandaeva (154946) Protomyia hypogaea, Protomyia antenata, Protomyia exposititia, Protomyia grandaeva, Protomyia elongata (type locality: 123945)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Plecia pulchella, Protomyia hypogaea, Protomyia antenata, Protomyia elongata, Protomyia expositia (138696)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Plecia hypogaea, Plecia grandaeva, Plecia sp. 7, Plecia sp. 12 (122010)