Lecadonileia, BLAGODEROV & GRIMALDI, 2004

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 : 47

Lecadonileia , new genus

DIAGNOSIS: Palpi reduced, laterotergites setose; wing membrane with macrotrichia; Sc free, Sc 2 absent; M 3+4 interrupted at base, M 3+4 and CuA curved gently caudad, 9th tergite small or fused with synsclerite; gonocoxites widely separated.

TYPE SPECIES: Lecadonileia parvistyla , n.sp.

ETYMOLOGY: The genus name is a feminine anagram of the Caledonileia Matile, 1993 .

COMMENTS: The genus is close to the genus Caledonileia , from which it differs in number and position of ocelli, number of palpomeres, setation of scutum, and in having Sc long, the radial cell wide, M3 long, and gonostyli unilobate ( Matile, 1993). The ge­ nus differs from Megophthalmidia Dziedzicki in having M 3+4 interrupted at the base and the fork of M 1 and M 2 not shifted anteriorly, so that M 1 reaches the wing margin beyond the wing apex.