†Nedocosia canadensis Blagoderov and Grimaldi 2004 (fungus gnat)
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Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Full reference: V. A. Blagoderov and D. Grimaldi. 2004. Fossil Sciaroidea (Diptera) in Cretaceous ambers, exclusive of Cecidomyiidae, Sciaridae, and Keroplatidae. American Museum Novitates 3433:1-76
Belongs to Nedocosia according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021
See also Blagoderov and Grimaldi 2004
Sister taxa: Nedocosia exsanguis, Nedocosia naiba, Nedocosia novacaesarea, Nedocosia sibirica
Type specimen: MCZ 6897, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (MCZ collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Cedar Lake (MCZ collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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