Insecta - Diptera - Therevidae

Alternative combinations: Desmatomyia scudderi, Psilocephala scudderi

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1909. Fossil Diptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26:9-12

Belongs to Palaeopherocera according to M. Hauser and M. E. Irwin 2005

See also Cockerell 1909, Cockerell 1916, Evenhuis 1990 and Evenhuis and Greathead 1999

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH 18860, an exoskeleton (complete fly)

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 14 (Eocene of Colorado)

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