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Penthetria longiventris

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia longiventris was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Nimes. Museum Ni 7(3), an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Les Fumades, which is in an Eocene lacustrine marl in France.

It was recombined as Penthetria longiventris by Skartveit and Nel (2017).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Plecia longiventris Theobald p. 133 figs. Pl II fig 16; Pl XI fig 18
1937Plecia superba Theobald p. 134 figs. Pl II fig 15
2017Penthetria longiventris Skartveit and Nel p. 27 figs. 11, 85-89

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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)
genusPenthetria
specieslongiventris()

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.

†Penthetria longiventris Theobald 1937
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Invalid names: Plecia superba Theobald 1937 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available