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Plecia luteola

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia luteola was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In. 58797/NMS 1893.114.36, 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 luteola by Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia luteola von Heyden and von Heyden p. 26 figs. Pl 8, fig 11
1943Plecia luteola Statz pp. 26-27
1994Plecia luteola Evenhuis
2021Plecia luteola Skartveit and Wedmann p. 30 figs. 43, 138, 139

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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
speciesluteola()

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 luteola von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: MP 30 or 28.40000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Protomyia luteola (type locality: 123945)