Dictyoraphidia veterana Scudder 1890 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Baissopteridae

Alternative combinations: Inocellia veterana, Raphidia veterana

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

Belongs to Dictyoraphidia according to V. N. Makarkin and S. B. Archibald 2014

See also Engel 2002, Handlirsch 1910 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PU 1.385, an exoskeleton (body broken). Its type locality is Florissant (former Princeton collection), which is in an Eocene lacustrine - large shale/volcaniclastic in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (former Princeton collection)

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