New black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Eastern Australia
Author
Mohrig, Werner
Author
Kauschke, Ellen
Author
Broadley, Adam
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-07-24
4450
2
203
241
journal article
29318
10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.3
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Bradysia macrotrichata
sp. n.
(
Fig. 12 A–D
)
Type
locality
:
New
South Wales
, Alstonville.
Holotype
: Male,
7.vi.1978
, light trap, leg. B.J. Loudon,
ASCT
00053766 (
ASCU
).
Paratype
:
1 male
, same data,
ASCT
00053760 (
PWMP
).
Description
. Male.
Head.
Brown. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Antenna brown, 4th flagellomere with l/w index of 2.4, hairs erect, rather dense and as long as the diameter of the basal node (the nodes on the slide-mounted specimens are somewhat swollen); neck very short, brown. Palpus 3-segmented, brownish, basal segment with 3–4 bristles and a flat sensory area.
Thorax.
Brown. Postpronotum bare. Wing brownish; R1 = 2/3 R; R5 with ventral macrotrichia; C = 2/3 w; y = x, both with macrotrichia; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brown. Coxae and legs brown; apex of fore tibia with a comb of bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibiae equal in size, longer than the diameter of the apex; claws without teeth.
Abdomen.
Brown, with fine and sparse hairs. Gonocoxites at the inner ventral margin with rather short sparse hairs; gonostylus pointed to the apex, without an apical tooth, with 3–4 dense apical spines. Tegmen somewhat wider than long, rounded apically, with a few teeth. Aedeagus long. Body length:
2.2 mm
.
Comments
. The species is characterized by the brown body colour, gonostylus pointed and curved in apical fourth, without an apical tooth, with 3–4 apical spines, and macrotrichia on x and y.
Distribution
.
Australia
:
New South
Wales
.