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Plecia lugubris

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia lugubris was named by Heer (1849). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Radoboj (K.K. Montanistischen Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

It was recombined as Rhyphus lugubris by Pongrácz (1928); it was recombined as Sylvicola lugubris by Evenhuis (1994) and Wojtoń et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Plecia lugubris Heer p. 209 figs. Pl 14, fig 20
1928Rhyphus lugubris Pongrácz p. 167 fig. 38
1935Plecia lugubris Piton and Théobald p. 85 figs. Pl 3, fig 1
1994Sylvicola lugubris Evenhuis p. 206
2018Sylvicola lugubris Wojtoń et al. p. 851
2020Plecia lugubris Skartveit and Krizmanić p. 358 figs. 6, 26

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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
specieslugubris

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 lugubris Heer 1849
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Sarmatian to the top of the Gelasian or 12.70000 to 1.80600 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia Plecia lugubris (type locality: 117761 224110)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806France Plecia lugubris (113994)