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Bibio pulchellus

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Bibio pulchellus was named by Heer (1849). Its type specimen is ETHZ Pl. I 854, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (von Seyfried collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Bibio pulchellus Heer p. 217 figs. Pl 16, fig 6
2014Bibio pulchellus Skartveit and Pika p. 120 figs. 35-36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyBibioninae
tribeBibionini
subtribeBibionina
genusBibio
speciespulchellus

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.

†Bibio pulchellus Heer 1849
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available