Leia miocenica Cockerell 1911 (fungus gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1911. Fossil Insects from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin American Museum of Natural History 30:71-82

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

See also Cockerell 1911

Sister taxa: Leia aberrans, Leia crassipalpis, Leia crassiuscula, Leia curvipetiolata, Leia exhumata, Leia frequens, Leia gracillima, Leia gurnardensis, Leia longipalpis, Leia longipes, Leia longipetiolata, Leia platypus, Leia vetusta

Type specimen: UCM-4440, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (Rohwer Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (Rohwer Collection)

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