David GraylessProphilopota is an #extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family #Acroceridae. It is known from #BalticAmber from the #Eocene.
Albert Cardona@arachnonaut From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acroceridae
#Acroceridae "a small family of odd-looking flies...hump-backed appearance with a strikingly small head...with a long proboscis for accessing nectar...common names are small-headed flies or hunch-back flies...Many are bee or wasp mimics are parasitoids of spiders...sometimes known as spider flies"
"cosmopolitan in distribution, but nowhere abundant"
Only 1742 observations world wide at #iNaturalist !
Daniel 🦄