Insecta - Diptera - Nemestrinidae

Alternative combinations: Palembolus florigerus, Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigerus

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. An Account of Some Insects of Unusual Interest from the Tertiary Rocks of Colorado and Wyoming. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(2):519-543

Belongs to Prosoeca (Palembolus) according to T. Dikow 2009

See also Bequaert and Carpenter 1936, Scudder 1878 and Scudder 1885

Sister taxon: Prosoeca (Palembolus) saxea

Type specimen: 405, an exoskeleton (wonderfully preserved). Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.