Pseudolycoriella notanda sp. n. (Fig. 8 A–C)

Type locality: Australia, Queensland, Mt Lewis, 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E .

Holotype: Male, 8.viii.1997, rain forest, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour, in ANIC.

Description. Male. Head: Round, mouth parts not elongate; eye bridge 4 facets wide; antenna brown; 4 th flagellomere with a l/w index of 2.0, with rather long neck, surface somewhat rough, hairs very dense and as long as the diameter of the basal node; palpus 3-segmented; basal segment with 6–7 bristles and a patch of short sensilla. Thorax: Brown; scutum with short dorsocentral and a few stronger lateral hairs; scutellum with many short marginal hairs; postpronotum bare. Wing brownish, with distinct veins; R 1 = 3/4 R; R 5 without ventral macrotrichia; C = 2/3 w; y = x, bare; Cu-stem rather short; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, with darkened knob; legs brownish; fore tibiae at the inner apex with a distinct patch of bristles and a semicircular border; spurs of middle and hind tibiae of the same size, brownish, longer than the diameter of the apex; claws rather strongly toothed. Abdomen: Tergal and sternal hairs moderately short and sparse; hypopygium brown, ventral base broad and v-shaped, the inner ventral margin of gonocoxites with short sparse hairs; gonostylus rather broad, apically rounded, with 2 short spines of the same size and 2 separate spines near the middle of the inner side and a long fine whip-lash hair; tegmen wide, apically rounded; aedeagus long and robust. Body length: 3 mm.

Comments. The species is characterized by having 4 short spines on the gonostylus, two of them separated near the middle, a long and fine whip-lash hair and very dense hairs on the flagellomeres. It belongs to the Psl. triacanthula group sensu Mohrig (2013).

Distribution. Australia (Queensland).