New Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of North America Part I. Genus Scatopsciara Edwards, 1927
Author
Mohrig, Werner
Author
Kauschke, Ellen
text
Zootaxa
2016
4150
4
401
435
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4150.4.3
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Scatopsciara
(
Xenopygina
)
itumae
sp. n.
*
(
Fig. 18 A–C
)
Locus
typicus
:
USA
,
Arizona
,
Pimo County
,
Tucson Mts.
16
Km W
Tucson,
30.24°N
,
111.13°W
,
Sonora
desert.
Holotype
:
Male
,
9.–30.viii.1995
, leg.
S. Prchal
,
Malaise trap
(
PWMP
)
.
Paratypes
:
4 males
, same data
; 2 males,
15.–30.viii.1995
, 1 male,
28.ix.–7.x.1995
,
1 male
,
30.iv.–16.v.1995
, same location, leg.
S. Prchal
(
PWMP
,
1 male
in
PKHH
,
1 male
in
MZH
)
.
Description
. Male.
Head
. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. 4th flagellomere with l/w-index of 2.0, haired as long as wide, brownish; neck rather long. Palpus 3-segmented, short; basal segment without deepened sensory area and one bristle only.
Thorax
. Brown; scutum haired brown. Wings pale; R1 = 2/3 R; c somewhat longer ½ w; y = x, bare; posterior veins bare. Haltere short, brownish. Legs yellowish-brown; tibial organ comb-like; middle and hind tibiae with long, but somewhat unequal spurs; claws toothless.
Abdomen
. Brown, haired brownish. Hypopygium brown, ventral base v-shaped. Gonocoxites longer than gonostylus, inner ventral margin haired short and densely. Gonostylus slender, weakly curved, without tooth but with 4 spines, two at the apex and two longer ones, positioned as pair subapically. Tegmen simple, somewhat trapezoid. Body size:
2.2 mm
.
Comments
. The species is well characterized by the two pairs of spines on gonostylus. It might however be mistaken with small species of
Bradysia
, where spurs of the middle and hind tibiae are slightly different in length. Short palpus, short R1 and a small tibial organ support strongly its inclusion in the genus
Scatopsciara
however. The species is similar to
Sc. subitumae
.
The species belongs to the
Sc. inesae
group.
Distribution
.
USA
(
Arizona
).
*Ituma = white stone, Choktaw.