Cascoplecia
Extinct species of fly
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Cascoplecia insolitis, rarely known as the unicorn fly,[1] is an extinct dipteran that lived in the Cretaceous. The type specimen was found in Burmese amber.[1] 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.[2][3]
| Cascoplecia Temporal range: | |
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| holotype fossil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
