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Loewiella

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy

Loewiella was named by Meunier (1894). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Sciophilinae by Meunier (1904) and Johannsen (1909); to Gnoristini by Edwards (1940); to Mycetophilidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Gnoristinae by Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Species

L. asinduloides, L. brevitarsis, L. ciliata, L. empalioides, L. incompleta, L. indistincta, L. modesta, L. mucronata, L. tenebrosa

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1894	Loewiella Meunier p. cxi
1904	Loewiella Meunier p. 132
1909	Loewiella Johannsen p. 44
1940	Loewiella Edwards p. 124
1992	Loewiella Carpenter
2021	Loewiella Oliveira and Amorim p. 104

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825

Rank	Name	Author
class	Insecta
order	Diptera
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
infraorder	Bibionomorpha
superfamily	Sciaroidea
family	Mycetophilidae
subfamily	Gnoristinae	(Edwards 1925)
genus	Loewiella	Meunier 1894

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Loewiella Meunier 1894

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†Loewiella asinduloides Meunier 1904

†Loewiella brevitarsis Meunier 1923

†Loewiella ciliata Meunier 1904

†Loewiella empalioides Meunier 1904

†Loewiella incompleta Meunier 1904

†Loewiella indistincta Meunier 1904

†Loewiella modesta Meunier 1923

†Loewiella mucronata Meunier 1904

†Loewiella tenebrosa Meunier 1904

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	L. asinduloides (123766) L. indistincta, L. incompleta, L. tenebrosa, L. ciliata, L. mucronata, L. asinduloides, L. empalioides, L. brevitarsis (123927)