Revision of the types of male Sciaridae (Diptera) described from Australia by F. A. A. Skuse Author Broadley, Adam Author Kauschke, Ellen Author Mohrig, Werner text Zootaxa 2016 4193 3 401 450 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.1 a1d6be7f-19da-4a61-b01c-d617b5ceba97 1175-5326 167160 BD4B57FA-FCB5-45B5-BF3F-B824F6E21E9C Austrosciara spectabilis ( Skuse, 1888 ) comb. n. ( Fig. 7 A‒C) Sciara spectabilis Skuse, 1888 [ Skuse (1888) : 716 ‒717; Skuse (1890) : 408 ]. Type locality. Australia , New South Wales , Sydney. Lectotype (here designated): Male. Slide bears original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. spectabilis / Ƌ (ink) TYPE ./ F. A. A. Skuse (print)’, ‘Sydney’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015 . ( ANIC ; Slide No. 047-1). Paralectotypes. Female. Same label data as male. 2 females and 2 males (not studied). Remarks. The original description states “ Hab .—Sydney and Berowra (Masters and Skuse). November to January” ( Skuse 1888 ). Preservation. Flagellomeres lost, other structures in rather good condition. Additional description . Male. Head . Dark brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide; flagellomeres lost; palpus 3- segmented, yellow, basal segment without sensory pit, with 4-5 bristles. Thorax . Brownish, anterior and lateral parts of scutum and pleural sclerites yellowish, prescutellar and a few lateral bristles robust and dark; scutellum with 4 longer marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1 = 2/3 R; R5 throughout with macrotrichia dorsally and ventrally; y = x, with macrotrichia; M-stem weakly visible, with 1-2 macrotrichia; M-branches and 2/ 3 of CuA1 with macrotrichia, CuA2 without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brownish. Coxae yellow, legs yellowishbrown; apex of fore tibia with a broad comb of hyaline bristles, 1‒2 somewhat separated; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, longer than width of tibia apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen . With dense, long, dark hairs. Hypopygium with a v-shaped ventral base, without a lobe or bristle patch; gonocoxite with short and sparse hairs at the inner ventral margin; gonostylus with dense hairs on the apex and the inner side, with a short apical tooth and 6‒7 fine, bristle-like spines as long as the tooth among spine-like hairs in the apical half of the inner side; tegmen as long as broad, apically rounded, with fine teeth and with a weak ventral parameral apodeme. Body length: 3.0 mm. Comments . The species is characterized by macrotrichia on M-branches and CuA1, a yellowish-spotted thorax and a densely haired apex of the gonostylus with a short apical tooth and several very fine bristle-like spines among spine-like hairs in the apical half of the inner side. Distribution . Australia ( New South Wales ).