Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae

Full reference: S. E. Lewis. 1972. A New Species of Fossil Bee Fly (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from the Ruby River Basin (Oligocene) of Southwestern Montana. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65(6):1421

Belongs to Alepidophora according to N. L. Evenhuis and D. J. Greathead 1999

See also Lewis 1972

Sister taxa: Alepidophora cockerelli, Alepidophora minor, Alepidophora pealei

Type specimen: B. 141b, an exoskeleton (female missing head & part of thorax). Its type locality is Ruby River, between Peterson and Morman Creeks, which is in a Whitneyan lacustrine shale in the Renova Formation of Montana.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ruby River, between Peterson and Morman Creeks

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