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(Redirected from Cascoplecia insolitis) Extinct species of fly

Cascoplecia
Temporal range: Late Aptian to Early Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
holotype fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Bibionoidea
Family: Bibionidae
Genus: †Cascoplecia
Poinar, 2010
Species: †C. insolitis
Binomial name
†Cascoplecia insolitis
Poinar, 2010

Cascoplecia insolitis, rarely known as the unicorn fly, is an extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous. The type specimen was found in Burmese amber. George Poinar Jr., who described the fossil, placed the genus into a new family Cascopleciidae. One of the defining characteristics of Cascoplecia is the presence of three ocelli raised on an extended, horn-like protuberance. The distinctiveness of the family was questioned by other authors, and the genus has been subsequently transferred to the family Bibionidae.

reconstruction

References

  1. ^ Poinar Jr., George (2010). "Cascoplecia insolitis (Diptera: Cascopleciidae), a new family, genus, and species of flower-visiting, unicorn fly (Bibionomorpha) in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 31 (1): 71–76. Bibcode:2010CrRes..31...71P. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.007.
  2. Thomas Pape, Vladimir Blagoderov & Mikhail B. Mostovski. 2011 Order DIPTERA Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness.
  3. Li, L.; Skibińska, K.; Krzemiński, W.; Wang, B.; Xiao, C.; Zhang, Q. (2021). "A new March fly Protopenthetrius skartveiti gen. nov. et sp. nov.(Diptera, Bibionidae, Plecinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 104924.
Taxon identifiers
Cascoplecia
Cascoplecia insolitis
Cascopleciidae


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