Bradysia pictipes ( Skuse, 1888 )

Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2018, New black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Eastern Australia, Zootaxa 4450 (2), pp. 203-241 : 224

Bradysia pictipes ( Skuse, 1888)

Sciara pictipes SkusE, 1888 [ SkusE (1888): 721 –722].

LitEraturE: BroaDlEy et al. (2016): 432–435, fig. 20 A –E; Vilkamaa et al. (2012b): 39–41, fig. 11 A –D (as Bradysia seticornis Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012 ).

Material: 5 males, 17.–18.ii.2010, Victoria, Barnawatha, on Plane tree, leg. C. Murdoch ( VAIC73179 / 73180)( VAIC) ; 1 male, 14.xii.1978, New South Wales, Jerilderie , rotating net trap, leg. unknown, ASCT000138591 ( ASCU) ; 2 males, 7.iii.1977, Rydalmere , light trap, ASCT000138716 ( PWMP) ; 1 male, 21.vii.1977, Condobolin , ASCT00054877 ( PWMP), all leg. B.J. Loudon ; 2 males, 27.xi.2001, Tasmania, Bushy Park, on cherry tree in fruit orchard, leg. O. Seeman, (#25, Accession No. 130299) ( PABM / TAIC) .

Comments. The species is characterized by the brown body colour, long and thin flagellomeres with short hairs and brownish necks, slightly bulbous gonostylus without an apical tooth, with 3–4 apical spines and 1–2 dorsally arranged spines, and a rounded tegmen with a large area of scale-like teeth. It belongs perhaps to the B. procera group.

Distribution. Australia: New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria.