Dioctria florissantina Cockerell 1909 (robber fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Asilidae

Alternative combination: Leptis florissantina

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1909. Descriptions of Tertiary insects, part V. American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 27:53-58

Belongs to Dioctria according to M. T. James 1939

See also Cockerell 1909

Sister taxa: Dioctria jamesi, Dioctria pulveris

Type specimen: University of Colorado Museum, an exoskeleton

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 13B (Eocene of Colorado)

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