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Plecia macrocephala

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia macrocephala was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58794, 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 macrocephala by Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Protomyia macrocephala von Heyden and von Heyden p. 23 figs. Pl 8, fig 8
1865Protomyia schineri von Heyden and von Heyden p. 27 figs. Pl 8, figs 12,13
1943Plecia schineri Statz pp. 15-16
1943Plecia macrocephala Statz p. 16
1994Plecia macrocephala Evenhuis
1994Plecia schineri Evenhuis
2021Plecia macrocephala Skartveit and Wedmann p. 30 figs. 44-47, 140-143

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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
speciesmacrocephala()

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 macrocephala von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Invalid names: Protomyia schineri von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 [synonym]
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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Protomyia macrocephala (154946) Protomyia macrocephala, Protomyia schineri (type locality: 123945)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Plecia sp. 10, Plecia sp. 11 (122010)