Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of Queensland, Australia. Part II. Genus Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig, 1998
Author
Mohrig, Werner
Author
Kauschke, Ellen
Author
Broadley, Adam
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-18
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4751.3.4
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Pseudolycoriella fuscovenosa
sp. n.
(
Fig. 5
A–C)
Type locality
:
Australia
,
Queensland
, Palm Cove, near Cairns.
Holotype
:
Male
,
3.vii.2000
, mangrove forest along the coastline,
caught by sweep net
, leg.
W. Mohrig
, in
ANIC
.
Paratypes
:
2 males
,
8.viii.1997
,
Black Mountain
Road near
Kuranda
,
33 km
WNW of Cairns
, in
PWMP
;
1 male
,
29.viii.1997
, same locality, in
PWMP
;
2 males
,
4.iv.1997
,
Mt Lewis
,
37 km
WSW of Port Douglas
,
16°35´S
,
145°16´E
, rain forest,
Malaise trap
, leg.
J. Seymour
,
1 in
PABM
,
1 in
PKHH
.
Description
. Male.
Head:
Ovoid, mouth parts somewhat elongate; eye bridge 3 facets wide; antennae brown; 4
th
flagellomere with a l/w index of 2.2, with short neck, surface somewhat rough, hairs as long as the diameter of the basal node; palpus 3-segmented; basal segment with 6–7 bristles and a patch of short sensilla.
Thorax:
Dark brown; central parts of scutum darkened, with short dorsocentral and 2–3 stronger lateral hairs; scutellum with 4 longer marginal hairs; postpronotum bare. Wing brownish, all veins darkened; R
1
= 2/3 R; R
5
with dorsal macrotrichia only; C = 3/4 w; y shorter than x, bare; Cu-stem rather short; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, with darkened knob; legs brownish; fore tibiae at the inner apex with a distinct patch of bristles and a semicircular border; spurs of middle and hind tibiae of the same size, brownish and longer than the diameter of the apex; claws strongly toothed.
Abdomen:
Tergal and sternal hairs moderately short and sparse; hypopygium brown, ventrally and on the inner ventral margin of gonocoxites with short sparse hairs; gonostylus elongate, apically rounded, with two short spines of the same size and a longer whip-lash hair; tegmen as wide as long, apically rounded; aedeagus rather short, with a large basal furca. Body length:
2.5 mm
.
Comments
. The species is characterized by the apically rounded gonostylus with two short spines and a longer whip-lash hair. It belongs to the
Psl.
bruckii
group sensu
Menzel & Mohrig (2000)
.
Distribution
.
Australia
(
Queensland
).