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Protomyia grossa

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia grossa was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58791, 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 grossa by Förster (1891), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia grossa von Heyden and von Heyden p. 22 figs. Pl 8, fig 5
1891Plecia grossa Förster p. 476 figs. Pl 14, fig 17
1943Plecia grossa Statz pp. 21-22 figs. Pl VII fig 58
1994Plecia grossa Evenhuis
2021Plecia grossa Skartveit and Wedmann p. 26 figs. 32, 120, 121

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyHesperininae(Walker 1848)
genusProtomyia
speciesgrossa

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.

Protomyia grossa von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: MP 30 or 28.40000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Protomyia grossa (type locality: 123945)