What is Cascoplecia?
{{Orphan|date=July 2010}} '''''Cascoplecia''''' is the [[genus]] of a very old [[fly]] that lived in the [[Early Cretaceous]] and was found in [[amber]]. The genus only has one type of species, the ''Cascoplecia insolitis'',<ref name=Poinar>{{Cite journal |first=George |last=Poinar Jr. |title=''Cascoplecia insolitis'' (Diptera: Cascopleciidae), a new family, genus, and species of flower-visiting, unicorn fly (Bibionomorpha) in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber |journal=Cretaceous Research |year=2009 |volume=31 |pages=71–76 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.007}}</ref> which means old and strange.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48836/title/Unicorn_fly_of_the_Cretaceous |title=Science News |access-date=2009-10-28 |archive-date=2009-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030002616/http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48836/title/Unicorn_fly_of_the_Cretaceous |url-status=dead }}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Flies]]