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Plecia bivalvula

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia bivalvula was named by Zhang (1993). Its type specimen is Shanwang Provincial Museum S200288, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection S200, which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Plecia bivalvula Zhang p. 142 figs. Pl 1, fig 2; text-fig 2
1994Plecia bivalvula Zhang et al. p. 192 figs. Pl 35, fig 2; text-fig 178

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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
speciesbivalvula

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 bivalvula Zhang 1993
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Diagnosis
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