Leia vetusta Meunier 1919 (fungus gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Alternative combination: Neoglaphyroptera vetusta

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1919. Neue Beiträge über die fossilen Insekten aus der Braunkohle von Rott (Aquitanien) im Siebengebirge (Rheinprußen). Jahrbuch der Prussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin 1918:141-153

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

See also Evenhuis 1994 and Meunier 1919

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 miocenica, Leia platypus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (Bauckhorn coll) (Oligocene of Germany)

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