Blepharepium borealis James 1939 (robber fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Asilidae

Alternative combinations: Palaeomolobra borealis, Senobasis borealis, Senoprosopis (Eosenoprosopis) borealis

Full reference: M. T. James. 1939. A preliminary review of certain families of Diptera from the Florissant Miocene Beds. II. Journal of Paleontology 13(1):42-48

Belongs to Blepharepium according to N. Papavero and N. Bernardi 1973

See also Hull 1962 and James 1939

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Museum of Comparative Zoology No. 4498, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)

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