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Plecia platyptera

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Penthetria platyptera was named by Handlirsch (1910). Its type specimen is GSC 7272, a wing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Horsefly Mine, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine shale in Canada.

It was recombined as Plecia platyptera by Rice (1959).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Penthetria platyptera Handlirsch p. 121 fig. 29
1959Plecia platyptera Rice p. 16 figs. Pl IV fig 1; Fig 8 No. 7

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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
speciesplatyptera()

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 platyptera Handlirsch 1910
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) Penthetria platyptera (type locality: 119857)