Saigusaia Vockeroth, 1980

BLAGODEROV, VLADIMIR & GRIMALDI, DAVID, 2004, Fossil Sciaroidea (Diptera) in Cretaceous Ambers, Exclusive of Cecidomyiidae, Sciaridae, and Keroplatidae, American Museum Novitates 3433 (1), pp. 1-76 : 31

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2004)433<0001:FSDICA>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5060591
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A87C9-FF9E-FF81-FF54-FD13FD2CFB54
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Saigusaia Vockeroth, 1980
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Saigusaia Vockeroth, 1980: 541 View in CoL .

DIAGNOSIS: As given by Vockeroth (1980): Face weakly sclerotized, bare; laterotergites bare; metepisternum with short fine hairs; prosternum bare; sternites of abdomen with median fold line. Male with tergite 7 and sternite 7 haired; subequal in length, twothirds length of segment 6; tergite 9 not fused with gonocoxites. Female with sternite 8 deeply emarginate posteriorly.

TYPE SPECIES: Boletina cincta Johannsen, 1912: 270 (by original designation).

COMMENTS: Three species of the genus are known from Eastern North America, Europe and Japan (Khonsu), and Taiwan and Nepal.