Neorhynchocephalus occultator Cockerell 1908 (tangle-veined fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Nemestrinidae

Alternative combination: Hirmoneura occultator

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1908. Another Fossil Nemestrinid Fly. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 34:254

Belongs to Neorhynchocephalus according to A. L. Melander 1949

See also Bequaert and Carpenter 1936 and Cockerell 1908

Sister taxa: Neorhynchocephalus melanderi, Neorhynchocephalus vulcanicus

Type specimen: UCM 18631, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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