Je. Baxter et Go. Poinar, A NEW GENUS AND NEW SPECIES OF FUNGUS GNATS (DIPTERA, MYCETOPHILIADE)FROM DOMINICAN AMBER, Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 30(1), 1994, pp. 93-102
A new genus, Metaleia Baxter, and three new species of fossil fungus g
nats belonging to the subfamilies Gnoristinae and Leiinae of the famil
y Mycetophilidae are described from Dominician amber. These include Te
tragoneura brevistipitis Baxter, n. sp., Metaleia maculicauda Baxter,
n. sp. and n. gen., and Aphrastomyia planistylus Baxter, n. sp. Brief
notes on diagnostic characters and extant related forms are given.