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Plecia morio

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Bibio morio was named by Heer (1849). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Radoboj (K.K. Montanistischen Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

It was recombined as Plecia morio by Skartveit and Nel (2017) and Skartveit and Krizmanić (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Bibio morio Heer p. 222 figs. Pl 16, fig 13
1856Bibio morio Heer p. 33
1928Bibio morio Pongrácz p. 183 figs. 38, 47
1937Bibio morio Theobald p. 332
2017Plecia morio Skartveit and Nel p. 55 figs. 47, 48, 154-159
2020Plecia morio Skartveit and Krizmanić p. 361

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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
speciesmorio()

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 morio Heer 1849
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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: base of the Chattian to the top of the Sarmatian or 28.10000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Plecia lygaeoides (122488)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) Bibio morio (122509 122877) Bibio morio, Plecia lygaeoides (138838)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia Bibio morio (type locality: 117761)