Alternative combinations: Leptosciarella botuli, Sciara botuli, Trichosia (Leptosciarella) botuli
Synonyms: Sciara sendelina Meunier 1904, Sciara tanypeza Meunier 1899, Trichosia (Leptosciarella) tanypeza Meunier 1899
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 Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) according to W. Mohrig and F. Röschmann 2005
See also Evenhuis 1994, Menzel and Mohrig 2000, Meunier 1899, Meunier 1904, Mohrig and Röschmann 1994 and Röschmann and Mohrig 1995
Sister taxa: Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) infausta, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) macrociliata, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) manifesta, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) microacantha, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) microciliata, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) orientalis, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) protorotunda, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) pseudorecens, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) resinae, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) tertiaria
Type specimens:
- Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) botuli: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
- Sciara sendelina:
- Sciara tanypeza: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (3 collections), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 6 collections including 8 occurrences
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