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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) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
It was recombined as Penthetria subterranea by Skartveit and Nel (2017) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Plecia subterranea Theobald p. 233 figs. Pl VI fig 12; Pl XVII fig 16 |
| 2017 | Penthetria subterranea Skartveit and Nel p. 34 figs. 18, 103-106 |
| 2021 | Penthetria subterranea Skartveit and Wedmann p. 18 fig. 13 |
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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
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||