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Penthetria subterranea

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia subterranea was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Bale Museum R 868, 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.

It was recombined as Penthetria subterranea by Skartveit and Nel (2017) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Plecia subterranea Theobald p. 233 figs. Pl VI fig 12; Pl XVII fig 16
2017Penthetria subterranea Skartveit and Nel p. 34 figs. 18, 103-106
2021Penthetria subterranea Skartveit and Wedmann p. 18 fig. 13

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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
speciessubterranea()

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.

†Penthetria subterranea Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available