Insecta - Diptera - Sciaridae

Alternative combination: Sciara jucheti

Full reference: M. Camier and A. Nel. 2019. A fossil black fungus gnat from the lowermost Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Sciaridae). Palaeoentomology 2:316-321

Belongs to Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) according to F. Hebert et al. 2025

See also Camier and Nel 2019

Sister taxa: Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) botuli, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) infausta, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) macrociliata, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) manifesta, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) menzeli, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) microacantha, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) microciliata, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) orientalis, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) protorotunda, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) pseudorecens, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) resinae, Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) tertiaria

Type specimen: MNHN.F.A71243, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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