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Penthetria togoensis

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Penthetria togoensis was named by Fujiyama and Iwao (1974). Its type specimen is CESES 20002, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kasayama, Inobo, Torimaru village (Togo), which is in a Piacenzian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Togo Formation of Japan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Penthetria togoensis Fujiyama and Iwao p. 93 figs. Pl 1, figs 4a,b; text-fig 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyHesperininae(Walker 1848)
genusPenthetria
speciestogoensis

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Penthetria togoensis Fujiyama and Iwao 1974
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Diagnosis
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