Plecia platyptera
(Redirected from Penthetria platyptera)
Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Bibionoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Bibionidae
Subfamilia: Pleciinae
Genus: Plecia
Species: †Plecia platyptera
Name
[edit]- †Plecia platyptera (Handlirsch) Rice, 1959 IV, figure 1; Figure 8, No. 7
Synonyms
[edit]- †Penthetria platyptera Handlirsch, 1910 Contr. to Canadian Palaeo., Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 12, pp. 121, 122, fig. 29 (protonym)
Type locality
[edit]- Early Eocene Ypresian; Eocene Okanagan Highlands; Unnamed sediments group; Unnamed Shale beds "Horsefly Shales"; Horsefly Mine (L2), Horsefly River Valley, Cariboo region, central British Columbia, Canada
Type material
[edit]- Holotype:GSC 7272
- Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Collector: Lawrence Morris Lambe, 1906
- Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Etymology
[edit]- none given
Distribution
[edit]Eocene
- Ypresian
- Eocene Okanagan Highlands
- Unnamed sediments group; Unnamed Shale beds "Horsefly Shales"; Horsefly Mine (L2), Horsefly River Valley, Cariboo region, central British Columbia, Canada
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Handlirsch, A. 1910. Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 2(3): 93–129. doi:10.4095/100486. Reference page.
- Rice, H. M. A 1959. Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 55: 1–36. ISSN 0068-7626. https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=100564. Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Evenhuis, N.L. (2 April 2014). "Family BIBIONIDАЕ". Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) (Version 2.0). Bishopmuseum.org. Reference page.
Links
[edit]- †Plecia platyptera Handlirsch 1910 (love bug) – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.
