Pseudolycoriella rubroalata, Mohrig & Kauschke & Broadley, 2018

Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2018, New black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Eastern Australia, Zootaxa 4450 (2), pp. 203-241 : 235

Pseudolycoriella rubroalata sp. n.

( Fig. 23 A–D )

Type locality: Australia, New South Wales, Windsor.

Holotype: Male, 11.vii.1978, caught by sweep net, leg. D. Kent, ASCT 00053801, ( ASCU).

Description. Male. Head. Dark brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Antenna brown; 4th flagellomere with a l/w index of 2.0, hairs erect, as long as the diameter of the basal node; neck brown. Palpus brownish, 3-segmented, basal segment with 4–5 bristles, without a deepened sensory area. Thorax. Brown. Scutum with dark hairs, some lateral and prescutellar bristles longer; scutellum with a few longer marginal bristles. Postpronotum bare. Wing brownish, R1 = 3/4 R; R5 with ventral macrotrichia in the distal third; C longer than 1/2 w; y shorter than x, without macrotrichia; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere brownish. Coxae and legs brown; apex of fore tibia with a dense patch of bristles and a horseshoe-like border; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, longer than the diameter of the apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. Brown, with brown hairs. Gonocoxite with rather short hairs at the inner ventral margin; gonostylus short and compact, the apex widely rounded, with short and dense hairs, a long subapical whiplash hair and 8–10 short, fine and bristle-like spines below on the distal third of the inner side. Tegmen wider than long. Aedeagus rather short. Body length: 3.5 mm.

Comments. This large and dark species is characterized by the compact gonostylus with dense hairs at the apex, 8–10 fine spines below the whiplash hair and a bristle patch with a horseshoe-like border at the apex of the fore tibia.

Distribution. Australia: New South Wales.

Figures

FIGURE 23. Pseudolycoriella rubroalata sp. n. A. Hypopygium; B. FlagEllomErEs 4–5; C. Tibial organ; D. Wing.