Eugnoriste Coquillett, 1896

Kauschke, Ellen, 2017, New Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of North America. Part IV. Genera Eugnoriste Coquillett and Keilbachia Mohrig, Zootaxa 4319 (1), pp. 53-76 : 54

Genus Eugnoriste Coquillett, 1896

Type speCies: Eugnoriste occidentalis Coquillett, 1896 [Coquillett (1896): 321–322; Fig. 24].

Literature: Steffan (1981): 251; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 703–704; Mohrig et al. (2013): 203–204.

Diagnosis. A very long mouth part IS typIcal for the genuS Eugnoriste In both SeXeS. However, the hypopygIum reSembleS that of many SpecIeS of Pseudolycoriella Menzel & MohrIg by havIng two apIcal SpIneS, combIned wIth a long whIplaSh haIr. Some SpecIeS of Pseudolycoriella have an elongated mouth part aS well, but not to that eXtreme. SpecIeS of Eugnoriste dIffer from thoSe of Pseudolycoriella by havIng a concaved Inner SIde of the gonoStyluS, a bIlobated 9th SternIte, rowS of denSe, brIStle-lIke haIrS on the dIStal abdomInal tergIteS and C beIng Shorter 1/2 w. The SouthweStern StateS of the USA Seem to be the center of radIatIon of the genuS although a few SpecIeS are dIStrIbuted In Central AmerIca aS well.