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AD
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male
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.
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, Pindaï, sclerophyllous forest, fogging,
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, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau &amp; Guilbert (in
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).
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Male.
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. Dark brown, antenna unicolorous, paler brown, maxillary palpus very pale brown. Eye bridge 5 facets wide. Setae of face and clypeus not detectable in the specimen. Maxillary palpus with 3 palpal segments; palpal segments long, palpal segment 1 and palpal segment 2 subequal, palpal segment 3 longest; palpal segment 1 with 6 setae, with a dorsal patch of sensilla; body of flagellomere 4 (
<figureCitation id="1301E791D90BF159B346D60CCD1C6B0B" box="[1075,1143,1082,1107]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,250,1896,1918]" captionTargetBox="[173,1409,411,1872]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[151,1436,411,1872]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Sciara insulana sp. n. (holotype). A. Antennal flagellomere 4, lateral. B. Apical portion of foretibia, prolateral. C. Part of hypopygium, ventral. D. Gonostylus, ventral. Scale 0.10 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/241145/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
A) 3.2x as long as wide, without distinct apical margin, the neck shorter than broad, the longest setae shorter than the width of flagellomere.
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B7E2D6B4C99B6BC3" bold="true" box="[151,240,1154,1179]" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">Thorax</emphasis>
. Brown. Setae dark. Anterior pronotum with 3 setae. Prothoracal episternum with 5 setae. Scutum with short dorsocentrals, with some longer and shorter laterals, scutellum with some longer and short setae.
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Fumose brown. Length 3.4 mm. Width/length = 0.40. Veins distinct. R1/R = 1.0. c/w = 0.70. r-m shorter than bM. membrane non-setose. Fork of M and CuA setose, stM non-setose, r-m with 2 setae, bM non-setose.
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. Pale brown, coxae and femora paler. Coxal setae dark. Foretibial organ with pale and fine vestiture forming a large patch (
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B). Foretibial spur as long as the tibial width.
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tibia without spinose setae. Claws without teeth.
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. Setae dark, rather short.
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C, D. Brown, concolorous with abdomen.
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broad, longer than gonostylus, mesial margin with sparse setosity.
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evenly narrow, slightly curved, apically truncate, with the mesial side not impressed; with dense apical vestiture, with a strong and short tooth-like process, with 3 apical megasetae, megasetae nearly straight. Tegmen laterally roundish, apex membraneous and barely detectable in the specimen studied, with area of large aedeagal teeth, aedeagal apodeme short.
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.
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resembles the Nepalese
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, the Chinese
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<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B27CD439CCF7697E" box="[1289,1436,1551,1574]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. xizangana</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B6E5D405CB6D6913" box="[400,518,1586,1611]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. isopalpi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFAB86E5D90BF159B578D405CB906913" author="Yang" box="[525,763,1586,1611]" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" refString="Zhang, X. &amp; Yang, C. - K. (1990) Five new species of Sciarids (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Nei Mongol and a genus new to China. Entomotaxonomia, 12, 267 - 274. [in Chinese, with English summary]" type="journal article" year="1990">Yang &amp; Zhang, 1990</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B473D405CAF76913" box="[774,924,1586,1611]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. sclerocerci</emphasis>
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, and the Nearctic
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Johannsen,
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in having an elongated gonostylus with apical megasetae and a densely setose lobe on the mesial side of these megasetae (see
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,
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,
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,
<bibRefCitation id="EFAB86E5D90BF159B22ED44DC8CB69EF" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" refString="Yang, C. - K., Zhang, X. &amp; Yang, C. - Q. (1993) Taxonomic studies on the Sciaridae (Diptera: Nematocera) of Guizhou. Entomotaxonomia, 15, 283 - 318." type="journal article">Yang, Zhang. &amp; Yang (1993)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="EFAB86E5D90BF159B6AAD4A8CBA369EF" author="Mohrig" box="[479,712,1694,1719]" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" refString="Mohrig, W., Heller, K., Hippa, H., Vilkamaa, P. &amp; Menzel, F. (2013) Revision of the Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of North America. Studia dipterologica, 19 (2012), 141 - 286." type="journal article" year="2013">Mohrig et al. (2013</bibRefCitation>
)).
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B59FD4A9CAF569EF" box="[746,926,1694,1719]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insulana">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B59FD4A9CAF569EF" box="[746,926,1694,1719]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">Sciara insulana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is similar to
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B335D4A9CC2269EF" box="[1088,1353,1694,1719]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B335D4A9CDB269EF" box="[1088,1241,1694,1719]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nepalensis">S. nepalensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B39CD4A9CC2269EF" box="[1257,1353,1694,1719]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="futilis">S. futilis</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B2F2D4A9C9936983" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B2F2D4A9C99F6983" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="isopalpi">S. isopalpi</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
and differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B6B2D4F5CB0F6983" box="[455,612,1730,1755]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sclerocerci">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B6B2D4F5CB0F6983" box="[455,612,1730,1755]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. sclerocerci</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B5D2D4F5CA566983" box="[679,829,1731,1755]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xizangana">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B5D2D4F5CA566983" box="[679,829,1731,1755]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. xizangana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having a small apical tooth at the apex of the gonostylus.
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B66AD4D1C8A469A7" box="[287,463,1766,1791]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insulana">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B66AD4D1C8A469A7" box="[287,463,1766,1791]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">Sciara insulana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B510D4D1CBA969A7" box="[613,706,1766,1791]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="futilis">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B510D4D1CBA969A7" box="[613,706,1766,1791]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. futilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having a more evenly narrow gonostylus (distinctly narrowed towards the apex in
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B60DD53DC8BF687B" box="[376,468,1802,1827]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="futilis">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B60DD53DC8BF687B" box="[376,468,1802,1827]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. futilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and in having four (eight in
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B46BD53DCA11687B" box="[798,890,1802,1827]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="futilis">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B46BD53DCA11687B" box="[798,890,1802,1827]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. futilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) gonostylar megasetae (for
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B3C1D53DCC64687B" box="[1204,1295,1802,1827]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="futilis">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B3C1D53DCC64687B" box="[1204,1295,1802,1827]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. futilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, see
<bibRefCitation id="EFAB86E5D90BF159B23DD53CC87C681F" author="Mohrig" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" refString="Mohrig, W., Heller, K., Hippa, H., Vilkamaa, P. &amp; Menzel, F. (2013) Revision of the Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of North America. Studia dipterologica, 19 (2012), 141 - 286." type="journal article" year="2013">
Mohrig
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B7E2D519C9A0681F" box="[151,203,1838,1863]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">et al</emphasis>
. 2013
</bibRefCitation>
: 248).
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B61DD519CB70681F" box="[360,539,1838,1863]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insulana">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B61DD519CB70681F" box="[360,539,1838,1863]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">Sciara insulana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B5C3D519CA20681F" box="[694,843,1838,1863]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nepalensis">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B5C3D519CA20681F" box="[694,843,1838,1863]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. nepalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having a narrower gonostylus with a very short, setose, apical lobe instead of having a very distinct one.
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B457D565CABE6833" box="[802,981,1874,1899]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insulana">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B457D565CABE6833" box="[802,981,1874,1899]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">Sciara insulana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most similar to
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B3DAD565CC4C6833" box="[1199,1319,1874,1899]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="isopalpi">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B3DAD565CC4C6833" box="[1199,1319,1874,1899]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. isopalpi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The
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material of this species is apparently lost (pers. comm. of Xu Jun, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Linan,
<collectingCountry id="F32DBB84D90BF159B790D5ACC84668EB" box="[229,301,1946,1971]" name="China" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">China</collectingCountry>
). Based on the original description of
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B5A6D5ADCD2668EB" authority="Yang &amp; Zhang 1990" authorityName="Yang &amp; Zhang" authorityYear="1990" box="[723,1101,1946,1971]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="isopalpi">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B5A6D5ADCA2368EB" box="[723,840,1946,1971]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. isopalpi</emphasis>
, (
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)
</taxonomicName>
, the second and third segment of its maxillary palpus are subequal in length, in
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D90BF159B5CAD589CA57688F" box="[703,828,1982,2007]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="590" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insulana">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D90BF159B5CAD589CA57688F" box="[703,828,1982,2007]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="590">S. insulana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the third segment is distinctly longer. The description of
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB7C3D2AEC8466FE8" box="[182,301,151,176]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="isopalpi">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB7C3D2AEC8466FE8" box="[182,301,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">S. isopalpi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
does not allow any detailed study of its structure, but it is highly unlikely that this Inner Mongolian species would be conspecific with
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB569D28BCBCB6F8D" box="[540,672,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB569D28BCBF76F8D" box="[540,668,188,213]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insulana">S. insulana</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B85FB14D908F15AB7B2D2D6CC566E45" blockId="2.[151,1436,151,357]" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">
As the apical tooth of the gonostylus is such an important character in species diagnostics of
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB27BD2E9CC126FA0" box="[1294,1401,223,248]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Sciaridae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB2F2D2D6C9BC6E45" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="futilis">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB2F2D2D6C9BC6E45" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">S. futilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB791D332C8316E45" box="[228,346,260,285]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insulana">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB791D332C8316E45" box="[228,346,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">S.insulana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB61DD333C8B56E45" box="[360,478,260,285]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="isopalpi">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB61DD333C8B56E45" box="[360,478,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">S. isopalpi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB561D333CBCD6E45" box="[532,678,260,285]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nepalensis">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB561D333CBCD6E45" box="[532,678,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">S. nepalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are placed in a new species group, the
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB328D333CD866E45" box="[1117,1261,260,285]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="futilis">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB328D333CD866E45" box="[1117,1261,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">Sciara futilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C320A89FD908F15AB7B2D311C8C36E3D" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8B85FB14D908F15AB7B2D311C8C36E3D" blockId="2.[151,1436,151,357]" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB7B2D311C8256E18" bold="true" box="[199,334,295,320]" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">Etymology.</emphasis>
The word is Latin,
<taxonomicName id="4C3A8097D908F15AB549D311CBF76E18" box="[572,668,295,320]" class="Insecta" family="Sciaridae" genus="Sciara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="591" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insulana">
<emphasis id="B94E2706D908F15AB549D311CBF76E18" box="[572,668,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="591">insulana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(islander) referring to the
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locality of the species in the New Caledonian archipelago.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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