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 paucispinata
sp. n.
(
Fig. 9
A–D)
Type locality
:
Australia
,
Queensland
, Black Mountain Road near Kuranda,
33 km
WNW of Cairns.
Holotype
:
Male
,
28.viii.1997
, rain forest,
Malaise trap
, leg.
J. Seymour
, in
ANIC
.
Paratypes
:
1 male
,
8.viii.1997
, locus typicus, in
PWMP
;
2 males
,
8.viii.1997
,
Mt Lewis
,
37 km
WSW of Port Douglas
,
16°35´S
,
145°16´E
, rain forest, leg.
J. Seymour
,
1 in
PABM
,
1 in
PWMP
.
Description
. Male.
Head:
Round, mouthparts not elongate; eye bridge 3 facets wide; antenna brown; 4
th
flagellomere with a l/w index of 1.8, with a rather short neck, surface somewhat rough, some sensilla with deep pits, hairs dense and as long as half of the diameter of the basal node; palpus 3-segmented; basal segment with 2–4 bristles and a patch of short sensilla.
Thorax:
Brown; scutum with rather long dorsocentral and a few more robust lateral hairs; scutellum with 4 longer marginal hairs; postpronotum bare. Wing broad and pale, with distinct veins; R
1
= 2/3 R; R
5
without ventral macrotrichia; C = 2/3 w; y = x, bare; Cu-stem rather short; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, with darkened knob; legs yellowish; fore tibiae at the inner apex with two distinct rowlike patches 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 finely toothed.
Abdomen:
Tergal and sternal hairs moderately long and sparse; hypopygium brown, ventral base v-shaped, the inner ventral margin of gonocoxites with short sparse hairs; gonostylus elongate, apically rounded, with 2 short spines of the same size and a short whip-lash hair, shorter than spines; tegmen wide, apically rounded; aedeagus rather long and thin. Body length:
2.2 mm
.
Comments
. The species is very similar to
Psl. paucispina
Mohrig from
Papua New Guinea
. It differs by having a larger body size and darker colour, dense hairs on the flagellomeres, longer R
1
, broader wings and a distinct semicircular bordered patch of bristles at the apex of the fore tibia. It belongs to the
Psl. longicostalis
group sensu Mohrig (2013).
Distribution
.
Australia
(
Queensland
).