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Plecia pealei

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia pealei was named by Scudder (1890). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bluffs at head of Twin Creek (Peale collection), which is in a Wasatchian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Plecia pealei Scudder p. 585 figs. Pl 4 figs 2, 3, 10-12

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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
speciespealei

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Plecia pealei Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available