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Leia longipes

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Glaphyroptera longipes was named by Förster (1891). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Brunstatt, horizon d4, which is in an Oligocene lacustrine - large marl in France.

It was recombined as Leia longipes by Theobald (1937) and Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1891Glaphyroptera longipes Förster p. 461 figs. Pl 14, fig 6
1937Leia longipes Theobald p. 221 figs. Pl V fig 14; Pl XVI fig 3
2021Leia longipes Oliveira and Amorim p. 102

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyLeiinae(Edwards 1925)
tribeLeiiniEdwards 1925
genusLeia
specieslongipes()

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.

†Leia longipes Förster 1891
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available