Corynoptera minutela ( Skuse, 1888 )

Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen & Mohrig, Werner, 2016, Revision of the types of male Sciaridae (Diptera) described from Australia by F. A. A. Skuse, Zootaxa 4193 (3), pp. 401-450 : 437

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BD4B57FA-FCB5-45B5-BF3F-B824F6E21E9C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6089946
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scientific name	Corynoptera minutela ( Skuse, 1888 )
status	comb. nov.

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Corynoptera minutela ( Skuse, 1888) View in CoL comb. n.

( Fig. 22 View FIGURE 22 A‒C)

Sciara minutela Skuse, 1888 View in CoL [ Skuse (1888): 702 ‒704].

Type locality. Australia, New South Wales, Glenbrook, Blue Mountains .

Lectotype (here designated): Male. Slide bears original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. minutela / Ƌ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse’ (print), ‘Glenbrook/ M.’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015. ( ANIC; Slide No. 035-1).

Paralectotype. Female (not studied).

Remarks. Original description states “ Hab.—Glenbrook, Blue Mountains (Masters). November.”

Preservation. Flagellomeres missing, posterior part of thorax destroyed, other morphological structures in good condition.

Additional description. Male. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Antennae missing; palpus 3-segmented; basal segment with 1 bristle. Thorax. Brownish, scutum with long dorsocentral and stronger lateral bristles; scutellum missing; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1 short, = 2/3 R; R5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; C short, = 1/2 w; y = x, without macrotrichia; posterior veins weak, without macrotrichia. Haltere lost. Legs pale-yellowish; fore tibia with a small comb of 4 pale bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, thin, somewhat longer than the width of tibia apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. Brownish, with rather long, sparse hairs. Hypopygium brownish, with v-shaped ventral base, without lobe or patch of bristles, gonocoxites with short fine hairs on the inner ventral margin; gonostylus pointed in apical half and weakly concave, without apical tooth, with 4 long spines in the apical third; tegmen not visible. Body length: 1.6 mm.

Comments. The species is characterized by a short C; a weakly concave gonostylus that is pointed in the apical half and with 4 long spines in the apical third. It resembles Palaearctic species related to C. membranigera ( Kieffer, 1903) but also species of the C. harrisi group like C. fuscispica Mohrig 1999 from New Zealand ( Mohrig & Jaschhof 1999).

Distribution. Australia (New South Wales).

References

Kieffer, J. (1903) Description de trois genres nouveaux et de cinq especes nouvelles de la famille des Sciaridae (Dipteres). Annales de la Societe scientifique de Bruxelles, 27 (3), 196 - 205.

Mohrig, W. & Jaschhof, M. (1999) Sciarid flies (Diptera, Sciaridae) of New Zealand. Studia dipterologica Supplement, 7, 1 - 110.

Skuse, F. A. A. (1888) Diptera of Australia. Part II. - The Sciaridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 2 (3), 657 - 726.