Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of Queensland, Australia. Part I. Genera Chaetosciara Frey, Corynoptera Winnertz, Cratyna Winnertz, Epidapus Haliday, Keilbachia Mohrig, Lobosciara Steffan, Phytosciara Frey and Scatopsciara Edwards
Author
Mohrig, Werner
Author
Kauschke, Ellen
Author
Broadley, Adam
text
Zootaxa
2017
4303
4
451
481
journal article
32513
10.11646/zootaxa.4303.4.1
8470bad9-6c97-468c-9687-5653fd52d89f
1175-5326
841442
742CEFD6-6343-41A0-AD5D-F72F1AFE135B
Phytosciara
(
Dolichosciara
)
pseudoornata
MOHRIG, 1999
(
Fig. 16 A
–B; 17 C)
Literature: Mohrig (1999): 187–188, fig. 29 a–d.
Material
.
11 males
,
8.vii.2000
,
Australia
,
Queensland
,
Fig Tree Cathedral
,
Gilles Highway
near
Cairns
, wet forest,
caught by net
, leg.
W. Mohrig
; 20 males, 8 females,
13.vi.1997
; 1 male, 1 female,
23.vi.1997
; 5 males, 11 females,
29.vi.1997
;
13 males
,
15 females
,
8.viii.1997
,
Queensland
,
Mt Lewis
,
37 km
WSW of
Port Douglas
,
16°35´S
,
145°16´E
, wet forest,
Malaise trap
, leg.
J. Seymour
(
PWMP
;
2 males
,
1 female
in
ANIC
;
2 males
in
PABM
).
Comments
. The species is characteriZed by a yellow scape and pedicel, a yellowish thorax, a long y without or with just 1–2 macrotrichia, a yellow hypopygium with a darkened gonostylus, gonocoxite with 2 long strong bristles, a gonostylus with 4 strong spines on dorsal side, a small intergonocoxal lobe with a few bristles, and a longer than broad tegmen. The species has been described from
Papua
New Guinea
. It is a common species within wet forests.
Distribution
.
Australia
,
Queensland
;
Papua
New Guinea
.
FIGURE 16.
A.
Phytosciara pseudoornata
Mohrig. A. Hypopygium
; B. Flagellomeres 4–5.
Genus
Scatopsciara
EDWARDS
,
1927
Type
species:
Sciara quinquelineata
Macquart, 1834: 149
(=
Sciara vitripennis
Meigen, 1818
).
Literature: Tonnoir & Edwards (1927): 798 (as subgenus of
Sciara
Meigen
); Tuomikoski 1960: 150–156; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 480–508; Mohrig (2004): 166–168; Vilkamaa
et al.
(2012d): 67–74.