Plecia dilatata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bibionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Nematocera Infraordo: Bibionomorpha Superfamilia: Bibionoidea

Familia: Bibionidae
Subfamilia: Pleciinae
Genus: Plecia
Species: †Plecia dilatata

†Plecia dilatata (Handlirsch) Rice, 1959 Plate III, figure 9; Figure 8, Nos. 5, 6

†Penthetria dilatata Handlirsch, 1910 Contr. to Canadian Palaeo., Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 12, p. 120, fig. 28 (protonym)

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

Holotype:GSC 7271
- Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  - Collector: Lawrence Morris Lambe, 1906

⧼Hypotype⧽:GSC 14482
- Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  - Collectors: G. M. Dawson, 1877; Ellis and Johnston, 1904; Lawrence Morris Lambe, 1906; W. Shaw, 1951; W. L. Fry, 1957

Eocene

Ypresian
Eocene Okanagan Highlands
- Princeton Group, Allenby Formation; roadcuts to coal mine dump circa 1955 (L7f), 0.7 mi (1.1 km) north of Whipsaw Creek bridge, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada
- Unnamed sediments group; Unnamed Shale beds "Horsefly Shales"; Horsefly Mine (L2), Horsefly River Valley, Cariboo region, central British Columbia, Canada

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.