Plecia tulameenensis

†Plecia tulameenensis holotype

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bibionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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 tulameenensis

Name

• †Plecia tulameenensis Rice, 1959 Plate II, figures 1, 4; Figure 3, Nos. 16, 20, 21; Figure 4, No. 19

Type locality

• Early Eocene Ypresian; Eocene Okanagan Highlands; Princeton Group, Allenby Formation; 40 ft (12 m) above Pleasant Valley No. 2 Mine Portal (L7g), Tulameen River, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada

Type material

• Holotype:GSC 14435
  • Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Collector: W. Shaw, 1951

• Paratypes:GSC 14436, 14437
  • Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Collectors:Lawrence Morris Lambe, 1906; W. Shaw, 1951; W. L. Fry, 1956-1957

• ⧼Hypotype⧽:GSC 14438
  • Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Collectors:C. E. Cairnes and S. S. Holland, 1932; A. H. Lang, 1939

Etymology

• none given

Distribution

Eocene

• Ypresian
• Eocene Okanagan Highlands
  • Princeton Group, Allenby Formation; 40 ft (12 m) above Pleasant Valley No. 2 Mine Portal (L7g), Tulameen River, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada
  • Princeton Group, Allenby Formation; 25 ft (7.6 m) up the Tulameen River bank (L7m), 400 yd (370 m) west of the old Pleasant Valley mine portal, Tulameen River, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada
  • Tranquille Formation?, Kamloops Group; Tranquille Creek (L3), Thompson-Nicola region, south-central 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. 

Links

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

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