Amber Listserv / Triassic Diptera from Virginia (220mya) Novitates 3572 Dr. Grimaldi etc

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Note the Culicomorpha .."culicomorphan with a long proboscis, which is the earliest fossil record of a structure specialized apparently for blood feeding"

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5854/1/N3572.pdf
 
How Time Flies for Flies: Diverse Diptera from the
Triassic of Virginia and Early Radiation of the Order
VLADIMIR BLAGODEROV,1 DAVID A. GRIMALDI,2 AND
NICHOLAS C. FRASER3
 
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Keith Luzzi
www.terratreasures.com
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