A fossil black fungus gnat from the lowermost Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Sciaridae)
Abstract
The extant fly family Sciaridae currently comprises a great quantity of fossil species (Evenhuis, 1994; Röschmann & Mohrig, 1995; fossilworks Gateway to the Paleobiology Database). Many of them were originally attributed to the genus Sciara, the oldest one being Sciara burmitina Cockerell, 1917 from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Mohrig & Röschmann (1994) revised several Sciara species described from the Middle Eocene Baltic amber and transferred them to different extant sciarid genera. From France, only compression fossils have been described by Théobald (1937), one from the Late Eocene and seven from the Oligocene. Here we describe the first Sciaridae from the Lowermost Eocene Oise amber (France). Blagoderov et al. (2010) previously described a Lygistorrhinidae sciaroid from the same amber.
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