Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Alternative combination: Sciophila hyattii

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

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

See also Evenhuis 1994 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Sciophila armipes, Sciophila atra, Sciophila atropos, Sciophila blotho, Sciophila carbonaria, Sciophila cognata, Sciophila curvipetiolata, Sciophila dilatata, Sciophila disjuncta, Sciophila inermis, Sciophila lachesis, Sciophila loewi, Sciophila micropora, Sciophila minutissima, Sciophila mirandula, Sciophila obscura, Sciophila socialis, Sciophila spinipes, Sciophila takoyensis, Sciophila trapezoides

Type specimen: Lee 99, a wing (wing & fragments of leg). Its type locality is Green River (Lee Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Green River (Lee Collection)

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