Sciara burmitina Cockerell 1917 (dark-winged fungus gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Sciaridae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1917. Fossil insects. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 10:1-22

Belongs to Sciara according to A. J. Ross and P. V. York 2000

See also Cockerell 1917

Sister taxa: Sciara acuminata, Sciara acuminata, Sciara amicula, Sciara antennaria, Sciara atavina, Sciara atropha, Sciara aulica, Sciara austera, Sciara basalis, Sciara bella, Sciara berckhemeri, Sciara bicolora, Sciara brachycera, Sciara braeuhaeuseri, Sciara branconis, Sciara brevipetiola, Sciara compta, Sciara cryptocephala, Sciara dasycera, Sciara defectuosa, Sciara deffneri, Sciara defossa, Sciara deleta, Sciara deperdita, Sciara dietleni, Sciara dormitans, Sciara ehrati, Sciara electriphila, Sciara endrissi, Sciara exilis, Sciara femuralis, Sciara flichei, Sciara fraasi, Sciara gracilenta, Sciara gracilior, Sciara hennigi, Sciara heydeni, Sciara hirtella, Sciara hoelzlei, Sciara ignorata, Sciara inflata, Sciara janassa, Sciara joossi, Sciara jucheti, Sciara jucunda, Sciara kluepfeli, Sciara laticornis, Sciara lengersdorfi, Sciara lengersdorfi, Sciara longa, Sciara longipennata, Sciara lugens, Sciara macrocera, Sciara martii, Sciara melanopa, Sciara milleri, Sciara minuscula, Sciara minuscula, Sciara minutula, Sciara oblonga, Sciara ovalipennata, Sciara pelidua, Sciara pennata, Sciara pompeckii, Sciara protogaea, Sciara quenstedti, Sciara radians, Sciara rara, Sciara requieta, Sciara rottensis, Sciara saportana, Sciara schremmeri, Sciara scopuli, Sciara seemanni, Sciara sepulta, Sciara sopora, Sciara splendida, Sciara strausi, Sciara thoracica, Sciara troglodytes, Sciara villosoides, Sciara wageri, Sciara weylandi, Sciara willershausensis, Sciara winnertzii

Type specimen: BMNH In.19100, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH)

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