Lithexorista Townsend 1921 (fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Tachinidae

Full reference: C. H. T. Townsend. 1921. Some new muscoid genera ancient and recent. Insectur Inscitiae Menstruus 9:132-134

Parent taxon: Tachinidae according to P. Cerretti et al. 2017

See also Carpenter 1992 and Evenhuis 1994

Sister taxa: Exoristinae, Muscidites, Myobia multiciliata, Tachininae, Thryptocera media

Subtaxa: Lithexorista scudderi

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Type: Lithexorista scudderi

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Petrified fish cut (Richardson Coll) (Eocene of Wyoming)

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