Rhagio flexus Meunier 1899 (snipe fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae

Alternative combination: Leptis flexa

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1899. Révision des diptères fossiles types de Loew conservés au Musée Provincial de Koenigsberg. Miscellanea Entomologica 7:169-182

Belongs to Rhagio according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Meunier 1899

Sister taxa: Rhagio bifurcatus, Rhagio calcaratus, Rhagio expassus, Rhagio exporrectus, Rhagio expositus, Rhagio exsanguis, Rhagio fascinatoris, Rhagio ferus, Rhagio fossitius, Rhagio ignavus, Rhagio primaevus, Rhagio samlandicus, Rhagio wheeleri, Leptis mystaceaeformis, Leptis acutangula, Leptis recurva, Leptis valida

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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