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Bibio miocenicus

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Bibio miocenica was named by Hong and Wang (1985). Its type specimen is Beijing Museum of Natural History 80117, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 79/80 (Beijing Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

It was corrected as Bibio miocenicus by Evenhuis (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Bibio miocenica Hong and Wang p. 4 figs. 2a-b
1994Bibio miocenicus Evenhuis p. 124

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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
speciesmiocenicus()

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 miocenicus Hong and Wang 1985
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available