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Penthetria anthracina

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia anthracina was named by Heer (1849). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Radoboj (K.K. Montanistischen Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

It was recombined as Penthetria anthracina by Handlirsch (1907), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Krizmanić (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Protomyia anthracina Heer p. 236 figs. Pl 16, fig 21
1907Penthetria anthracina Handlirsch p. 960
1928Protomyia anthracina Pongrácz p. 176 figs. 42f, 43
1994Penthetria anthracina Evenhuis p. 128
2020Penthetria anthracina Skartveit and Krizmanić p. 352 figs. 1, 19, 20

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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
speciesanthracina()

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 anthracina Heer 1849
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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: Sarmatian or 12.70000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia Penthetria anthracina (117247 224110) Protomyia anthracina (113693 type locality: 117761)