Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Full reference: V. Blagoderov. 2019. Superfamily Sciaroidea, in True flies (Insecta: Diptera) from the late Eocene insect limestone (Bembridge Marls) of the Isle of Wight, England, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 110:495-554
Belongs to Leia according to V. Blagoderov 2019
Sister taxa: Leia aberrans, Leia crassipalpis, Leia crassiuscula, Leia curvipetiolata, Leia exhumata, Leia frequens, Leia gracillima, Leia longipalpis, Leia longipes, Leia longipetiolata, Leia miocenica, Leia platypus, Leia vetusta
Type specimen: NHMUK In.25295/In.25314, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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