Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae
Alternative combination: Rhagio fossitus
Full reference: A. L. Melander. 1949. A Report on Some Miocene Diptera from Florissant, Colorado. American Museum Novitates 1407:1-61
Belongs to Rhagio according to D. E. Greenwalt 2019
See also Melander 1949
Sister taxa: Rhagio bifurcatus, Rhagio calcaratus, Rhagio expassus, Rhagio exporrectus, Rhagio expositus, Rhagio exsanguis, Rhagio fascinatoris, Rhagio ferus, Rhagio flexus, Rhagio ignavus, Rhagio primaevus, Rhagio samlandicus, Rhagio wheeleri, Leptis mystaceaeformis, Leptis valida, Leptis acutangula, Leptis recurva
Type specimen: USNM 112626, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (USNM Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Distribution: found only at Florissant (USNM Collection)
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