Kingdom Animalia Infraorder Bibionomorpha Scientific name Cascoplecia insolitis Rank Genus | Class Insecta Species C. insolitis Phylum Arthropoda Order Fly | |
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Family Cascopleciidae
Poinar Jr., 2010 Similar Fly, Rangomaramidae, Pachyneuridae, Bibionomorpha, Deuterophlebia | ||
Cascoplecia insolitis, commonly 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 this fossil, coined a new family name for it – Cascopleciidae. One of the defining characteristics of Cascoplecia are three ocelli raised on an extended horn-like protuberance (hence its common name).
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