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Plecia rhenana

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia rhenana was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 38798, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Plecia rhenana by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865), Förster (1891), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994), Skartveit and Nel (2017) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Plecia rhenana von Heyden and von Heyden p. 28 figs. Pl 9, fig 9
1891Plecia rhenana Förster p. 471 figs. Pl 14, fig 14
1943Plecia rhenana Statz p. 11 figs. Pl I fig 2; Pl V fig 45, 46
1994Plecia rhenana Evenhuis
2017Plecia rhenana Skartveit and Nel p. 57 figs. 49, 160, 161
2021Plecia rhenana Skartveit and Wedmann p. 35 figs. 55, 158, 159

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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
speciesrhenana()

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 rhenana von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
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