New black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Eastern Australia Author Mohrig, Werner Author Kauschke, Ellen Author Broadley, Adam text Zootaxa 2018 2018-07-24 4450 2 203 241 journal article 29318 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.3 ad05fb6a-3087-433c-a1d7-ef8ab0ab966d 1175-5326 1444654 624934AE-AEF3-4366-81B2-0997054B3DBD Austrosciara multispinulata sp. n. ( Fig. 3 A–C ) Type locality : Australia , Australian Capital Territory , Black Mountain . Holotype : Male, 20.v.1963 , Malaise trap, CSIRO , leg. I.F.B. Common, ASCT 00049056 ( ASCU ). Paratypes : 3 males , Type locality, same data ( 2 in PWMP [ ASCT00049057-58 ], 1 in ASCU [ ASCT00049055 ]) ; 1 male , 7.vi.1978 , N.S.W., Uralba Forest Reserve (Ballina), leg. B.J. Loudon , ASCT00050376 ( PABM ) . Description. Male. Head. Brown. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Antenna brownish, with sparse and long erect hairs; 4th flagellomere with l/w index of nearly 4.0, hairs as long as the diameter of the basal node; neck brownish. Palpus 3-segmented, yellow, basal segment with 1–2 bristles and a patch of sensillae. Thorax. Brown. Scutum with fine pale hairs, some lateral and prescutellar bristles longer; scutellum with 4 longer marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1=1/2 R; R 5 in the distal third with ventral macrotrichia; C longer than 1/2 w; y somewhat shorter than x, without macrotrichia; posterior veins with macrotrichia: Haltere short, yellowish. Coxae and legs brown; apex of fore tibia with a broad comb of hyaline bristles, with a weakly arched border; spurs of middle and hind tibiae equal in size, longer than the diameter of the apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. Brownish, with short fine hairs. Hypopygium with a rather broadly v-shaped ventral base; gonocoxites at the inner ventral margin with short and sparse hairs; gonostylus large (nearly as long as the gonocoxite), oval and rounded, with short hairs, with 6 short spines, isolated and arranged on the inner side, the apical tooth of the same shape and size. Tegmen longer than broad, pyramid-like. Aedeagus rather long. Body length: 2.0 mm. Comments . The species is characterized by macrotrichia on posterior wing veins, the large and bulbous-oval gonostylus with an apical tooth and 6 spines of nearly the same size and shape, isolated and arranged on the inner side, and long flagellomeres. Distribution . Australia : Australian Capital Territory , New South Wales .