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Plecia winnertzi

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia winnertzi was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58790, 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 winnertzi by Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia winnertzi von Heyden and von Heyden p. 21 figs. Pl 8, fig 4
1943Plecia winnertzi Statz p. 16
1994Plecia winnertzi Evenhuis
2021Plecia winnertzi Skartveit and Wedmann p. 39 figs. 61, 172, 173

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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
specieswinnertzi()

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 winnertzi von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
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