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Plecia avus
Extinct species of March fly / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plecia avus is an extinct species of Plecia in the March fly family Bibionidae and is solely known from Early Eocene sediments exposed in central southern British Columbia. The species is one of twenty bibionid species described from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands.
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Plecia avus | |
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Plecia avus hypotype fossil | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Bibionidae |
Genus: | Plecia |
Species: | †P. avus |
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†Plecia avus (Handlirsch, 1910) | |
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