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Plecia hilaris

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia hilaris was named by Heer (1849). Its type specimen is ETHZ 7281, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Plecia hilaris Heer p. 211 figs. Pl 17, fig 6
1864Plecia hilaris Heer p. 394 fig. 313
2014Plecia hilaris Skartveit and Pika p. 125 figs. 48-53

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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
specieshilaris

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 hilaris Heer 1849
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available