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Plecia gracilenta
Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Taxonomy
Protomyia gracilenta was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58805, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.
It was synonymized subjectively with Plecia lygaeoides by Skartveit and Nel (2017); it was recombined as Plecia gracilenta by Evenhuis (1994), Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
It was synonymized subjectively with Plecia lygaeoides by Skartveit and Nel (2017); it was recombined as Plecia gracilenta by Evenhuis (1994), Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1865 | Protomyia gracilenta von Heyden and von Heyden p. 28 figs. Pl 9, fig 12 |
| 1994 | Plecia gracilenta Evenhuis |
| 2021 | Plecia gracilenta Skartveit and Wedmann p. 25 figs. 31, 119 |
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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 gracilenta von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||