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 Pseudolycoriella ignobilis ( Skuse, 1888 ) comb. n. ( Fig. 25 A‒C) Sciara ignobilis Skuse, 1888 [ Skuse (1888) : 717 ‒718]. Type locality. Australia , New South Wales , Berowra. Holotype : Male. Original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. ignobilis / Ƌ (ink) TYPE ./ F. A. A. Skuse (print)’, ‘Berowra/ M + S.’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015 . ( ANIC ; Slide No. 027). Remarks. Original description states “ Hab .—Berowra (Masters and Skuse). August.” Preservation. Head and thorax strongly deformed, flagellomeres missing, hypopygium deformed, one gonostylus damaged, the second deformed with apical spines broken off. Additional description . Male. Head . Brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide; antennae missing; palpus 3- segmented; basal segment without sensory pit, with 3‒4 bristles. Thorax . Brown; scutum with rather long and brownish prescutellar as well as a few lateral bristles; scutellum with 4 longer marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing brownish; R1 = 2/3 R; R5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; c 2/3 w; y = x, without macrotrichia; posterior veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, whitish. Legs brownish; fore tibia with a large patch of hyaline bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, longer than the width of tibia apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen . With rather long, sparse, brownish hairs. Hypopygium with v-shaped ventral base, without lobe or patch of bristles; gonocoxite with short sparse hairs on the inner ventral margin; gonostylus elongate, densely hairy and bristle-like at the apex, with 2 somewhat subapical spines and a long whiplash hair among bristle-like hairs below the spines; tegmen deformed. Body length: 2.0 mm. Comments . This strongly deformed specimen is difficult to characterize. For classification it may help to use the following combination of characters: the large patch of hyaline bristles on the fore tibia, gonostylus with 2 apical spines among bristle-like hairs above and below the spines, as well as the venation of the wings. Distribution . Australia ( New South Wales ).