Full reference: J. W. Meigen. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungseintheilung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde 2:259-281
Parent taxon: Sciarinae according to S. Shin et al. 2019
See also Aldrich 1905, Carpenter 1992, Scudder 1890, Shin et al. 2013, Theobald 1937 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Leptosciarella, Mixosciaritis, Trichosia
Subtaxa: Sciara acuminata Sciara acuminata Sciara amicula Sciara antennaria Sciara atavina Sciara atropha Sciara aulica Sciara austera Sciara basalis Sciara bella Sciara berckhemeri Sciara bicolora Sciara brachycera Sciara braeuhaeuseri Sciara branconis Sciara brevipetiola Sciara burmitina Sciara compta Sciara cryptocephala Sciara dasycera Sciara defectuosa Sciara deffneri Sciara defossa Sciara deleta Sciara deperdita Sciara dietleni Sciara dormitans Sciara ehrati Sciara electriphila Sciara endrissi Sciara exilis Sciara femuralis Sciara flichei Sciara fraasi Sciara gracilenta Sciara gracilior Sciara hennigi Sciara heydeni Sciara hirtella Sciara hoelzlei Sciara ignorata Sciara inflata Sciara janassa Sciara joossi Sciara jucheti Sciara jucunda Sciara kluepfeli Sciara laticornis Sciara lengersdorfi Sciara lengersdorfi Sciara longa Sciara longipennata Sciara lugens Sciara macrocera Sciara martii Sciara melanopa Sciara milleri Sciara minuscula Sciara minuscula Sciara minutula Sciara oblonga Sciara ovalipennata Sciara pelidua Sciara pennata Sciara pompeckii Sciara protogaea Sciara quenstedti Sciara radians Sciara rara Sciara requieta Sciara rottensis Sciara saportana Sciara schremmeri Sciara scopuli Sciara seemanni Sciara sepulta Sciara sopora Sciara splendida Sciara strausi Sciara thoracica Sciara troglodytes Sciara villosoides Sciara wageri Sciara weylandi Sciara willershausensis Sciara winnertzii
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (2), Croatia (2), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (2), Japan (1), Mexico (2), United States (1: Idaho)
• Oligocene of France (7), Germany (3)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), France (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (4: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)
Total: 35 collections including 96 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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