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Bibio expansus

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Bibio expansus was named by Zhang (1989). Its type specimen is s82654, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection s (Shandong Provincial Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Bibio expansus Zhang p. 344 figs. Pl 83, figs 3, 4; text-fig 351

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyBibioninae
tribeBibionini
subtribeBibionina
genusBibio
speciesexpansus

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.

†Bibio expansus Zhang 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available