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Plecia dubia

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Phthiria dubia was named by Germar (1837). Its type specimen is STIPB A 595, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Orsberg (Goldfuss Bonn collection), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Bibio dubius by Evenhuis (1994); it was recombined as Plecia dubia by Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. gracilenta

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Helophilus primarius Germar figs. Pl 25
1837Phthiria dubia Germar figs. Pl 24
1865Protomyia abava von Heyden and von Heyden p. 20 figs. Pl 8, fig 2B
1943Plecia abava Statz p. 12
1943Plecia satyrus Statz pp. 12-13 figs. Pl I fig 7; Pl V fig 47
1994Plecia abava Evenhuis
1994Bibio dubius Evenhuis p. 123
2021Plecia dubia Skartveit and Wedmann p. 21 figs. 21-26, 108-113

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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
subfamilyPleciinaeDuda 1930
genusPleciaWiedemann 1823
speciesdubia()

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 dubia Germar 1837
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Invalid names: Helophilus primarius Germar 1837 [synonym], Plecia satyrus Statz 1943 [synonym], Protomyia abava 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: MP 28 or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Plecia satyrus (122010)
MP 2827.3 - 23.04Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) Plecia dubia (71942)
MP 3027.3 - 23.04Germany Helophilus primarius, Phthiria dubia (type locality: 115802) Protomyia abava (123945)