Leiella maculicauda Baxter 1994

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Alternative combination: Metaleia maculicauda

Full reference: J. E. Baxter. 1994. Taxonomic names, in A new genus and new species of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Dominican amber. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 30:93-102

Belongs to Leiella according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021

See also Baxter 1994 and Oliveira and Amorim 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCB D-7-129, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)

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