Neosciara biarmata Lengersdorf, 1953

Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, Zootaxa 4665 (1), pp. 1-67 : 9

Neosciara biarmata Lengersdorf, 1953

Literature. Neosciara biarmata Lengersdorf—Lengersdorf (1953) 167, fig. 2; Tuomikoski (1959a): 36; Tuomikoski (1960): 77 [under L. modesta (Staeger) ]; Janetschek (1956): 471; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 589. Lycoriella (Hemineurina) biarmata (Lengersdorf) —? Hondru (1968): 20; Gerbachevskaja-Pavluchenko (1986): 30.

Discussion. Neosciara biarmata Lengersdorf was described based on five males from the Austrian Alps. The collection data were defined on the basis of Janetschek’s collection list in Lengersdorf’s bequest by Menzel & Mohrig (2000) (letters and documents in ZFMK). Tuomikoski (1959a) saw an immature type specimen (male) and wrote that N. biarmata Lengersdorf is very close to ‘ L. modesta (Staeger) ’. However, belonging nowadays in this species complex are many species which are difficult to distinguish from each other without comparing the specimens. A reliable concept of the species is not possible until a type revision is undertaken. It is treated as a nomen dubium in Menzel & Mohrig (2000: 589), and not included in the present checklist.