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Plecia pristina

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia pristina was named by Hardy (1971). Its type specimen is UCMP 12878, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is UCMP B-7044, Quechula, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Plecia pristina Hardy p. 65 fig. 1
2013Plecia pristina Skartveit and Bechly p. 99 fig. 1,2

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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
speciespristina

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 pristina Hardy 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available