Plecia kelownaensis

†Plecia kelownaensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bibionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia 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 kelownaensis

Name

• †Plecia kelownaensis Rice, 1959 Plate I, figure 4; Figure 3, Nos. 8, 9

Type locality

• Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanagan Highlands; Penticton Group?, unidentified formation; 40 ft (12 m) Mission Creek (L6), southeast of Kelowna, Regional District of Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada

Type material

• Holotype:GSC 14423
  • Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Collector:J. Gervais, 1930

• Paratype:GSC 14424
  • Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Collector:W. L. Fry, 1956

Etymology

• none given

Distribution

Eocene

• Ypresian
• Eocene Okanagan Highlands
  • Penticton Group?, unidentified formation; 40 ft (12 m) Mission Creek (L6), southeast of Kelowna, Regional District of Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
  • Ootsa group, unnamed shale beds "Driftwood shales, Driftwood Beds, or Driftwood Canyon Shales"; East Bank, Driftwood Creek (L1b), Near Smithers, Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako, British Columbia, Canada

References

Primary references

• 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

• 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. 
• Gentilini, G. 1991. Occurrence of the genus Penthetria Meigen, 1803, from the Lower Messinian of Central Italy (Diptera Bibionidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 123(1): 62-66. ISSN 0373-3491. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277930500.  Reference page. 

Links

• †Plecia kelownaensis Rice 1959 (love bug) – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.

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