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| Description | The Bibionidae (March flies and lovebugs) are a family of flies (Diptera). About 650-700 species are known worldwide. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibionidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 4.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Common Name | march fly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Bibionidae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Entomol. Mag., 2: 379, 387 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 317 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 12 (3.8%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 125 - 122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | terrestrial (based on Insecta) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Arthropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | chitin (based on Insecta) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | Y. C. Hong. 1983. Fossil insects in the diatoms of Shanwang. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 8:1-15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | March Flies, Hårmygg, Hårmyggor, March-flies, Rouwvliegen, Zwarte Vliegen, Rouwvliegen, Harlequin Flies, March Fly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibionidae |
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| 👁 Image Bibioninae subfamily | listed (PBDB) | 268 | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| 👁 Image Pleciinae subfamily | listed (PBDB) | 474 | 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| 👁 Image Bibio genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 236 | 59.2 Ma Paleocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| 👁 Image Bibiodes genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 10 | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Bibionellus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Dilophus genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 22 | 55.8 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Enicoscolus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Hirtea genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Lichnoplecia ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | |
| 👁 Image Megeana ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Penthetria genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Plecia genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Love Bug | 367 | 83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant |
| Enicoscoelus brachycephalus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Bibio elongatus Heer, 1849 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae : Bibio elongatus |
| Penthetria fusca (Oustalet, 1870) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae : Penthetria fusca |
| Penthetria adusta (Oustalet, 1870) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae : Penthetria adusta |
| Penthetria formicoides (Oustalet, 1870) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae : Penthetria formicoides |
| Bibio robustus Oustalet, 1870 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae : Bibio robustus |
| Protomyia formicoides (Oustalet, 1870) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae : Protomyia formicoides |
| Protomyia fusca (Oustalet, 1870) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae : Protomyia fusca |
| Protomyia adusta (Oustalet, 1870) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Bibionidae : Protomyia adusta |
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1821 | Bibionidae Fleming p. 55 |
| 1849 | Bibio elongatus Heer p. 214 figs. Pl 16, fig 2 |
| 1865 | Bibio elongatus Heer p. 394 fig. 311 |
| 1870 | Bibio robustus Oustalet p. 128 figs. Pl 4, figs 7-9 |
| 1870 | Protomyia adusta Oustalet p. 145 figs. Pl 5, fig 18 |
| 1870 | Protomyia fusca Oustalet p. 145 figs. Pl 4, fig 15 |
| 1870 | Protomyia formicoides Oustalet p. 150 figs. Pl 4, fig 18; pl 5, fig 19 |
| 1906 | Bibionidae Handlirsch p. 488 |
| 1921 | Bibionidae Cockerell |
| 1923 | Bibionidae Meunier p. 86 |
| 1931 | Bibionidae Pongrácz p. 117 |
| 1931 | Bibio elongatus Pongrácz p. 121 figs. Pl 7, 8; text-fig 8 |
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1941 | Bibionidae Zeuner |
| 1953 | Bibionidae Bode |
| 1983 | Bibionidae Hong p. 3 |
| 1985 | Bibionidae Hong and Wang p. 17 |
| 1992 | Bibionidae Carpenter |
| 1994 | Penthetria adusta Evenhuis |
| 1994 | Penthetria formicoides Evenhuis |
| 1994 | Penthetria fusca Evenhuis |
| 1994 | Bibionidae Nel p. 451 |
| 2007 | Bibionidae Yeates et al. |
| 2009 | Bibionidae Skartveit p. 10 |
| 2019 | Bibionidae Nel et al. p. 530 |
| Hong Y. C. (1983) Fossil insects in the diatoms of Shanwang, Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 8, 1-15 |
| Fleming J. Insecta, Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5, 41-56 |
| Heer O. , Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Henschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflügler, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen, 1-264 |
| Heer O. , Die Urwelt der Schweiz, 1-622 |
| Oustalet E. Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains Tertiaires de la France, première partie, insectes fossiles de l'Auvergne, Annales des Sciences Géologiques, Paris 2 3, 1-178 |
| Handlirsch A. (1906) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 1-640 |
| Cockerell T. D. A. (1921) Eocene Insects from the Rocky Mountains, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 57, 233-260 |
| Meunier F. (1923) Sur quelques insectes de l'Aquitanien de Rott (Sept-Monts, Rhénanie), Miscellanea Entomologica, Revue Entomologique Internationale 26, 82-88 |
| Pongrácz A. (1931) Bemerkungen über die Insektenfauna von Oeningen nebst Revision der Heer'schen Typen, Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-Medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg 17 2, 104-125 |
| Zeuner F. E. (1941) The Eocene Insects of the Ardtun Beds, Isle of Mull, Scotland, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 7, 82-100 |
| Bode A. (1953) Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103, 1-375 |
| Hong Y., Wang W. (1985) Miocene Diptera and Hymenoptera (Insecta) of Shanwang, Shandong Province, China, Memoirs of the Beijing Natural History Museum 31, 1-22 |
| Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655 |
| Evenhuis N. L. (1994) , Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera), 1-600 |
| Nel A. (1994) Revision of the Miocene genus Lithobibio (Diptera: Bibionidae), European Journal of Entomology 91, 451-454 |
| Yeates D. K., Wiegmann B. M., et al (2007) Phylogeny and systematics of Diptera: two decades of progress and prospects, Zootaxa 1668, 565-590 |
| Skartveit J. (2009) Fossil Hesperinidae and Bibionidae from Baltic amber (Diptera: Bibionoidea), Studia Dipterologica 15, 3-42 |
| Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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| Shewell, G. E.,Hardy, D. E.,Vockeroth, J. R.,Peterson, B. V.,Wood, D. M.,Teskey, H. J.,McAlpine, J. F. (1981) Chapter 13. Bibionidae - via The Diptera Site |
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| Grootaert, P.; De Bruyn, L.; De Meyer, M. (1991). Catalogue of the Diptera of Belgium. Studiedocumenten van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 70: 338pp. - via World Register of Marine Species |
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| International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 441 Validation under the Plenary Powers of the names for five genera in the order Diptera (class Insecta) published in 1762 by Geoffroy (E.l.) in the work entitled Histoire Abregee des Insectes Qui Se Trouvent Aux Environs de Paris (Opinion supplementary to Opinion 228).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 15(6), 83-120 (1957) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology |