Sciara morosa Meunier, 1904

Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, Zootaxa 4665 (1), pp. 1-67 : 9

Sciara morosa Meunier, 1904

Literature. Sciara morosa Meunier—Meunier (1904) : 78, pl. 6, fig. 7; Handlirsch (1907): 930; Keilbach (1982): 342; Mohrig & Röschmann (1994): 82. Lycoriella (Lycoriella) morosa (Meunier) — Frey (1942): 37; Spahr (1985): 107. Lycoriella morosa (Meunier) — Evenhuis (1994): 172.

Discussion. Sciara morosa Meunier was described from Baltic amber on the basis of seven females. Mohrig & Röschmann (1994: 82) concluded in their revisionary work that the type material is lost and that Frey’s (1942) placement of the species in Lycoriella s. str. must be strongly suspected because up till now no species of Lycoriella have been found in amber. We follow the decision of Mohrig & Röschmann (1994) and exclude the preoccupied name Sciara morosa Meunier, 1904 [not Sciara morosa Winnertz, 1867 ] from the Lycoriella group and place it in the unplaced taxa (species incerta sedis).