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Plecia conica

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia conica was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Bale Museum R 657(376), an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kleinkembs, which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl/limestone in the Salt Formation of Germany.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Plecia conica Theobald p. 232 figs. Pl XVII fig 13
1993Plecia haennii Gentilini p. 164 figs. 13-16
2017Plecia conica Skartveit and Nel p. 39 figs. 29, 30, 114-118
2021Plecia conica Skartveit and Wedmann p. 21 fig. 20

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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
speciesconica

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Plecia conica Theobald 1937
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Invalid names: Plecia haennii Gentilini 1993 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available