Sylvicola Harris 1780 (wood gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae

Synonyms: Anisopus Meigen 1803, Asarcomyia Scudder 1890, Bria Giebel 1856, Lycoria Latreille 1802, Rhyphus Latreille 1804

Full reference: M. Harris. 1780. An Exposition of English Insects, Including the Several Classes of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, & Diptera, or Bees, Flies, & Libellulae 73-166

Parent taxon: Anisopodinae according to D. D. S. Amorim et al. 2016

See also Aldrich 1905, Carpenter 1992, Edwards 1928, Evenhuis 1994, Evenhuis and Pape 2017, Handlirsch 1906, Harris 1780, Latreille 1802, Lewis 1969, Scudder 1890, Statz 1944 and WojtoƄ et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Gansuplecia, Jurolaemargus, Leptoplecia

Subtaxa: Lycoria (Neosciara) Lycoria chrysitis Sylvicola baltica Sylvicola cadaver Sylvicola carolae Sylvicola fenestralis Sylvicola harrisi Sylvicola hoffeinsorum Sylvicola hooleyi Sylvicola maculata Sylvicola prisca Sylvicola problematica Sylvicola silibrarius Sylvicola splendida Sylvicola thiriona

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of Croatia (1 collection), United States (1: Idaho)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Montana)

• Eocene of China (1), Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (3: Montana, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 19 collections including 28 occurrences

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