New Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of North America. Part V. Genera Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig and Phytosciara Frey
Author
Mohrig, Werner
Author
Kauschke, Ellen
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-07
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journal article
27703
10.11646/zootaxa.4543.2.5
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Pseudolycoriella flavipila
sp. n.
(
Fig. 3 A
–
D
; Plate II, Fig. III)
Locus typicus
:
USA
,
Florida
, Highlands County, Archibald Biological Station,
13 km
SO of Lake Placid.
Holotype
:
Male
,
22.–29.vii.1998
,
Malaise trap
leg.
D. Wahl
&
F. Gonsalves
(
PWMP
).
Paratypes
:
9 males
, same data as holotype (
PWMP
,
1 male
in
PKHH
)
.
Description
. Male.
Head
: Round; eye bridge 3 facets wide. Antenna brownish, scape and pedicel somewhat paler; 4
th
flagellomere with a l/w index of 2.0, brownish, hairs not shorter than the diameter, with a few deepened sensorial pits. Palpi 3-segmented, first segment with 2 bristles and a flat patch of sensillae. Mouth parts very short.
Thorax
: Brownish, pleural sclerites with yellow spots; scutum rather long and with dark hairs, some lateral and prescutellar bristles longer. Scutellum with 4 stronger bristles, two are long. Posterior pronotum bare. Wing brownish; R
1
= 1/2 R; c = 2/3 w; y = x, bare; M-fork as long as M-stem, narrow; CuA-stem as long as x; posterior veins distinct and without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brownish. Legs yellowish brown; tibial organ with an undifferentiated patch of strong bristles, not bordered. Claws toothless.
Abdomen
: Ventral base of hypopygium without lobe and bare; inner margin of gonocoxites with short sparse hairs. Gonostylus apically rounded, with dense hairs apically, subapically with 2 short dark spines, not longer than apical hairs and with a long whiplash hair. Tegmen as wide as high, apically rounded. Aedeagus short and thin. Body length: 2.0 mm.
Comments
. The species is characterized by having two short dark subapical spines as long as the apical hairs, a long whiplash hair, an undifferentiated tibial organ and claws without teeth.
Distribution
.
USA
(
Florida
).