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Plecia
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Species
Common Lovebug
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyBibionidae
Observations10,906
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 464
- With media
- 263
- Family
- Bibionidae
- Collections
- VMNH, LACM
- Recorded in
- United States, Germany
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Lovebug Plecia nearctica.jpg
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- Commons category
- Plecia
- taxon common name
- Lovebugs
- taxon name
- Plecia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Plecia
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Species
- Extant species
- Fossil species
- Cretaceous
- [[Paleocene]]
- [[Eocene]]
- [[Oligocene]]
- [[Miocene]]
- [[Pliocene]]
- Pleistocene
- References
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Plecia is a genus of March flies (Bibionidae) comprising many species, both extant and fossilised. Several species of this genus are commonly known as "lovebugs" due to their behavior of flying around coupled together while mating.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Plecia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.