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Plecia jucunda

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Protomyia jucunda was named by Heer (1849). Its type specimen is SMNK Oe. 168 Inv. 1279, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Carlsruhe collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Penthetria jucunda by Evenhuis (1994); it was recombined as Plecia jucunda by Skartveit and Pika (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Protomyia jucunda Heer p. 234 figs. Pl 17, fig 2
1849Protomyia affinis Heer p. 235 figs. Pl 17, fig 3
1931Protomyia jucunda Pongrácz p. 121
1994Penthetria affinis Evenhuis p. 128
1994Penthetria jucunda Evenhuis p. 128
2014Plecia jucunda Skartveit and Pika p. 127 figs. 54-56

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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
speciesjucunda()

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 jucunda Heer 1849
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Invalid names: Protomyia affinis Heer 1849 [synonym]
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Sarmatian or 12.70000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Protomyia jucunda (115305 117252) Protomyia jucunda, Protomyia affinis (113689)