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Asilus palaeolestes

Insecta - Diptera - Asilidae

Taxonomy
Asilus palaeolestes was named by Cockerell (1921). Its type specimen is USNM 66922, an exoskeleton (female), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is White River (Scudder collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data