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Plecia sluiteri

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia sluiteri was named by Meunier (1917). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Bauckhorn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large lignite in Germany.

It was synonymized subjectively with Plecia lapidaria by Evenhuis (1994); it was recombined as Plecia sluiteri by Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Protomyia sluiteri Meunier p. 14 figs. Pl 4, fig 13; text-figs 19-21
2021Plecia sluiteri Skartveit and Wedmann p. 36 figs. 56, 57, 160-165

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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
speciessluiteri()

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 sluiteri Meunier 1917
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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: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Protomyia sluiteri (type locality: 138696)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Plecia sp. 15, Plecia lapidaria (122010)