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Plecia luctuosa

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia luctuosa was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58792, 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 luctuosa by Theobald (1937), Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia luctuosa von Heyden and von Heyden p. 22 figs. Pl 8, fig 7
1937Plecia luctuosa Theobald p. 230
1943Plecia luctuosa Statz p. 15 figs. Pl VI fig 53
1994Plecia luctuosa Evenhuis
2021Plecia luctuosa Skartveit and Wedmann p. 29 figs. 41, 42, 130-137

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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
speciesluctuosa()

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 luctuosa von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
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