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 cavatica ( Skuse, 1888 ) comb. n. ( Fig. 23 A‒D; Fig. 24 A‒B) Sciara cavatica Skuse, 1888 [ Skuse (1888) : 688 ‒689]. Type locality. Australia , New South Wales , Glenbrook , Blue Mountains . Holotype : Male. Original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. cavatica / Ƌ (ink) TYPE. / F. A. A. Skuse’ (print), ‘Glenbrook/ M’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015 . (ANIC; Slide No. 009). Preservation. All details in good condition, wings somewhat deformed. Remarks. Original description states “ Hab .—Glenbrook, Blue Mountains (Masters). End of November.” = Sciara familiaris Skuse, 1888 syn. n. [ Skuse (1888) : 687 ‒688]. Type locality. Australia , New South Wales , Elizabeth Bay . Lectotype (here designated): Male. Slide bears original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. familiaris / Ƌ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse’ (print). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015 . (ANIC; Slide No. 019-1). Paralectotypes. 1 female and 1 male (not studied). Remarks. Original description states “ Hab .—Elizabeth Bay (Skuse). January.” Preservation. Head missing, thorax and legs damaged, wings and hypopygium in good condition. FIGURE 22. Corynoptera minutela (Skuse, 1888) . A. Hypopygium in part; B. Gonostylus; C. Apex of fore tibia (somewhat deformed). FIGURE 23. Pseudolycoriella cavatica (Skuse, 1888) . A. Hypopygium; B. Gonostylus; C. Pedicel and flagellomeres 1‒5; D. Palpus (from Sciara festiva Skuse, 1888 ). FIGURE 24. Pseudolycoriella cavatica (Skuse, 1888) . A. Hypopygium from Sciara familiaris Skuse 1888 ; B. Hypopygium from Sciara festiva Skuse, 1888 . = Sciara festiva Skuse, 1888 syn. n. [ Skuse (1888) : 689 ‒690]. Type locality. Australia , New South Wales , Sydney. Lectotype (here designated): Sciara festiva Skuse, 1888 . Male. Slide bears original label data verbatim ‘ Sciara festiva / ♂ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse’ (print), ‘Sydney/ S’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015 . (ANIC; Slide No. 021-1). Paralectotype. 1 female (not studied). Remarks. Original description states “ Hab .—Elizabeth Bay (Skuse). May.” Preservation. Gonostylus slightly deformed. Additional description . Male. Head . Eye bridge 2 facets wide; frons between eye bridge and scape with a few bristles. Antenna short; 4th flagellomere with l/w-index of 1.4, with hairs pale, bristle-like and nearly as long as the width of the basal node; necks rather short, brownish; palpus 3-segmented; basal segment without sensory pit, with 4-5 bristles. Thorax . Scutum with rather short and brown central as well as lateral bristles; scutellum with 2 long and 4 shorter marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing brownish; R1 = 1/2 R; R5 throughout with macrotrichia dorsally and ventrally; C = 3/4 w; y = x, with 1‒2 macrotrichia; M-fork long, posterior veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brownish. Legs brownish; tibial organ small, with 4‒5 fine hyaline bristles in an irregular row; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, longer than the width of apex of tibia; claws missing. Abdomen . With rather long, dense brownish hair. Hypopygium with broad open ventral base, without lobe or patch of bristles; gonocoxite with short and sparse hairs on the inner ventral margin; gonostylus curved in the apical third, densely hairy on the apex, with 2 subapical spines as long as apical hairs, and with a long whiplash hair below; tegmen wider than long, with dark sclerotized shoulders laterally, rounded apically; aedeagus rather short, with large furca. Body length: 2.2 mm . Comments . This species is characterized by very short flagellomeres, frons with short bristles, gonostylus with 2 short spines and a much longer whiplash hair, and a tegmen that has rather strongly sclerotized shoulders. The type specimens of S. familiaris and S. festiva are in rather good condition. Both are identical to Psl. cavatica ( Skuse 1888 ) in all details. Distribution . Australia ( New South Wales ).