Alternative combinations: Corynoptera klebsi, Sciara klebsii
Invalid subtaxa: Bradysia electra Meunier 1904, Bradysia infernalis Meunier 1904, Bradysia morosoides Meunier 1904, Corynoptera hirticornis Loew 1850 [replaced name], Sciara bella Meunier 1904, Sciara hirticornis Loew 1850 [replaced name], Sciara minuscula Meunier 1904, Sciara palmnickii Meunier 1904, Sciara variabilis Meunier 1904
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1904. Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 28:12-275
Belongs to Corynoptera according to F. Röschmann and W. Mohrig 1995
See also Evenhuis 1994, Loew 1850, Meunier 1899, Meunier 1904, Meunier 1905, Mohrig and Röschmann 1994 and Röschmann and Mohrig 1995
Sister taxa: Corynoptera curiosa, Corynoptera dubia, Corynoptera eocenica, Corynoptera evenhuisi, Corynoptera iocosa, Corynoptera koenigsbergensis, Corynoptera neutralis, Corynoptera prisca, Corynoptera pristina, Corynoptera ritzkowskii, Corynoptera schumanni, Corynoptera subagilis, Corynoptera tritospinosula, Corynoptera umbrosa, Sciara spinulosa
Type specimens:
- Corynoptera klebsii: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
- Bradysia electra: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
- Bradysia infernalis: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
- Bradysia morosoides: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
- Sciara bella: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
- Sciara hirticornis: MfN MB.I 877/4, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
- Sciara minuscula: Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Museum Marseille Coll), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.
- Sciara palmnickii:
- Sciara variabilis:
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)
• Eocene of Germany (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 8 collections including 17 occurrences
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