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Priabona florissantius

Priabona florissantius
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Pipunculidae
Subfamily: Nephrocerinae
Genus: Priabona
Archibald, Kehlmaier, & Mathewes, 2014
Species:
P. florissantius
Binomial name
Priabona florissantius
(Carpenter & Hull) Archibald, Kehlmaier, & Mathewes, 2014
Synonyms
  • Protonephrocerus florissantius

Priabona is an extinct genus of big-headed flies in the dipteran subfamily Nephrocerinae, within which it is one of only two genera. The genus contains a single described species, Priabona florissantius. Priabona is known from a single Late Eocene fossil from western North America.[1]

  1. ^ Archibald, SB; Kehlmaier, C; Mathewes, RW (2014). "Early Eocene big headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from the Okanagan Highlands, western North America". The Canadian Entomologist. 146 (4): 429–443. doi:10.4039/tce.2013.79.

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