A NEW GENUS AND NEW SPECIES OF FUNGUS GNATS (DIPTERA, MYCETOPHILIADE)FROM DOMINICAN AMBER

Authors
BAXTER JE POINAR GO
Citation
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
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Annales de la Societe entomologique de France → ACNP
ISSN journal
00379271
Volume
30
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
93 - 102
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-9271(1994)30:1<93:ANGANS>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
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.