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Sciara strausi KOHRING & SCHLÜTER, 1993
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Taxonomy
Fungus Gnat
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order: Diptera Linnaeus 1758
Family: Sciaridae Billberg 1820
Genus: Sciara
Species: Sciara strausi
Author Citation KOHRING & SCHLÜTER, 1993
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pliocene
International Age: Piacenzian
Stratigraphy
Willershausen Formation
Provenance
Collector: T. Bastelberger
Date Collected: 06/01/1968
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 4 mm
Location
Clay pit Willershausen
Willershausen a. Harz
Lower Saxony
Germany
Comments
A very common insect in the sediments of Willershausen.
Taxonomy according to Kohring & Schlüter 1993.
Line drawing of the forewing from Kohring & Schlüter 1993, p. 194:
Identified by oilshale using Kohring & Schlüter 1993.
Reference:
Kohring, R & Schlüter, T. (1993): Sciariden (Insecta: Diptera: Nematocera) aus dem Oberpliozän von Willershausen. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (E), 9, p. 191-199; Berlin
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