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Plecia pinguis

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia pinguis was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). 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 pinguis by Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia pinguis von Heyden and von Heyden p. 24 figs. Pl 9, figs 4,5
1865Protomyia lapidaria von Heyden and von Heyden p. 25 figs. Pl 9, fig 6
1878Plecia lapidaria Brongniart p. 48
1891Plecia lapidaria Förster p. 478 figs. Pl 14, fig 20
1915Bibio brachypteroides Meunier p. 215 figs. Pl 24, fig 1
1937Plecia lapidaria Theobald p. 231 figs. Pl V fig 9; Pl XVII fig 10
1943Plecia pinguis Statz p. 17 figs. Pl VI fig 56
1943Plecia lapidaria Statz p. 24 figs. Pl VII fig 60
1943Plecia vulpina Statz p. 27 figs. Pl I fig 8; Pl VII fig 66
1994Plecia lapidaria Evenhuis
1994Plecia pinguis Evenhuis
1994Bibio brachypteroides Evenhuis p. 123
2017Plecia lapidaria Skartveit and Nel p. 44 figs. 32, 33, 126-128
2021Plecia pinguis Skartveit and Wedmann p. 33 figs. 49-53, 147-155

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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
speciespinguis()

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 pinguis von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Invalid names: Bibio brachypteroides Meunier 1915 [synonym], Plecia vulpina Statz 1943 [synonym], Protomyia lapidaria von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available