†Lithexorista Townsend 1921 (fly)
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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
Type: Lithexorista scudderi
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Petrified fish cut (Richardson Coll) (Eocene of Wyoming)
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