Insecta - Diptera - Apsilocephalidae
Alternative combinations: Apsilocephala vagabunda, Rueppellia vagabunda
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1927. Fossil Insects from the Miocene of Colorado. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 19:161-166
Belongs to Palaeoapsilocephala according to M. Hauser and D. E. Greenwalt 2022
See also Cockerell 1927, Hauser and Irwin 2005 and Zhang et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Palaeoapsilocephala kishenehnensis, Palaeoapsilocephala pusilla
Type specimen: BMNH IN 26827, an exoskeleton (complete fly). Its type locality is Florissant (BMNH Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Distribution: found only at Florissant (BMNH Collection)
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