Full reference: A. L. Melander. 1949. A Report on Some Miocene Diptera from Florissant, Colorado. American Museum Novitates 1407:1-61
Belongs to Sciara according to A. L. Melander 1949
Sister taxa: Sciara acuminata, Sciara atropha, Sciara brevipetiola, Sciara burmitina, Sciara defectuosa, Sciara deperdita, Sciara difficilis, Sciara dormitans, Sciara electriphila, Sciara flichei, Sciara florissantensis, Sciara gurnetensis, Sciara ignorata, Sciara inflata, Sciara lacoei, Sciara martii, Sciara minuscula, Sciara oblonga, Sciara protoberidis, Sciara protogaea, Sciara rara, Sciara saportana, Sciara schremmeri, Sciara scopuli, Sciara sepulta, Sciara sopora, Sciara splendida, Sciara villosoides
Type specimen: AMNH 26465, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
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Average measurements (in mm): body length 4.20, wing length 3.00