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Plecia vergnei

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia vergnei was named by Piton (1935). Its type specimen is Station Limnologique de Besse 9, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Varennes near Lac Chambon, which is in a Gelasian crater lake horizon in France.

It was recombined as Plecia (Protomyia) vergnei by Civet (1976).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. gracilenta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Plecia vergnei Piton p. 86 figs. Pl 3, fig 2
1976Plecia (Protomyia) vergnei Civet p. 43 fig. 21
1994Plecia vergnei Evenhuis

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyPleciinaeDuda 1930
genusPleciaWiedemann 1823
speciesvergnei

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 vergnei Piton 1935
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Turolian to the top of the Gelasian or 8.72500 to 1.80000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Turolian8.725 - 5.09France (Ardèche) Plecia vergnei (172761)
Gelasian2.58 - 1.8France Plecia vergnei (type locality: 113994)