New Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of North America. Part V. Genera Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig and Phytosciara Frey
Author
Mohrig, Werner
Author
Kauschke, Ellen
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-07
4543
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261
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journal article
27703
10.11646/zootaxa.4543.2.5
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Pseudolycoriella chlorothoracica
sp. n.
(
Fig. 3 E
–
G
)
Locus typicus
:
USA
,
Arizona
,
Pima County
,
Tucson Mountains
,
16 km
W Tucson
,
Sonora
desert,
32.24°N
,
111.13°W
.
Holotype
:
Male
,
28.ix.–7.x.1995
, leg.
S. J. Prchal
,
Malaise
trap (
PWMP
).
Description
. Male.
Head
: Round; eye bridge 3 facets wide. Antenna brownish, scape and pedicel somewhat paler; 4
th
flagellomere with a l/w index of 1.8–2.0, hairs somewhat shorter than the diameter, inserted in rather large pits. Palpi 3-segmented, first segment with 3–4 bristles and a flat patch of sensillae. Mouth parts very short.
Thorax
: Brown; scutum with dark hairs, some lateral and prescutellar bristles longer. Scutellum with 2 more robust bristles. Postpronotum bare. Wing brownish; R
1
= 1/2 R; c somewhat longer than 1/2 w; y = x, both bare; Mfork shorter than M-stem, rather wide; CuA-stem = x; posterior veins distinct, without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brown. Legs yellowish; tibial organ with a small patch of stronger bristles, distinctly bordered. Claws finely toothed.
Abdomen
: Inner margin of gonocoxites with a few longer bristles between short hairs. Gonostylus wide and oval in shape, inner side concave, with dense apical hairs, 3 long spines, and 2–3 whiplash hairs that are as long as the spines. Tegmen apically rounded. Aedeagus rather long, with a large furca. Body length:
2.2 mm
.
Comments
. The species resembles
Psl.
basisetosa
sp. n.
but differs from it by having a broader gonostylus with three much longer spines, a few longer bristles on the entire ventral inner margin of the gonocoxites and a distinctly bordered tibial organ apically on the fore tibia.
Distribution
.
USA
(
Arizona
).