Pseudolycoriella secura, Mohrig & Kauschke & Broadley, 2020

Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2020, Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of Queensland, Australia. Part II. Genus Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig, 1998, Zootaxa 4751 (3), pp. 487-506 : 499

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0FCACF65-C125-414C-9848-F96BD0571F73
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3718247
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC420F-FFA6-C134-7E84-227B121BF8EB
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pseudolycoriella secura
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Pseudolycoriella secura View in CoL sp. n.

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Type locality: Australia, Queensland, Mt Lewis , 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E GoogleMaps .

Holotype: Male, 8.viii.1997, rain forest, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour, in ANIC.

Description. Male. Head: Round, mouth parts short; eye bridge 2 facets wide; antenna brown; 4 th flagellomere with a l/w index of 2.0, with rather long neck, surface somewhat rough, hairs longer than the diameter of the basal node; palpus 3-segmented; basal segment narrow, with 2–3 bristles and a patch of short sensilla. Thorax: Dark brown; central parts of scutum darkened, with rather long dorsocentral and 2–3 stronger lateral hairs; scutellum with 2 longer marginal hairs; postpronotum bare. Wing brownish, with distinct veins; R 1 = 2/3 R; R 5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; C = 3/4 w; y shorter than x, bare; Cu-stem rather short; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, with darkened knob; legs yellowish; fore tibiae at the inner apex with a small patch of bristles and a semicircular border; spurs of middle and hind tibiae of the same size, yellowish and longer than the diameter of the apex; claws very strongly toothed. Abdomen: Tergal and sternal hairs moderately short and sparse; hypopygium brown, ventrally and on the inner ventral margin of gonocoxites with rather long and sparse hairs; gonostylus elongate and narrow, apically rounded, with two short spines of the same size and a long whip-lash hair; tegmen wider than long and weakly rounded; aedeagus rather short, with large basal furca. Body length: 2.5 mm.

Comments. The species is characterized by the narrow gonostylus with two short spines and a longer whip-lash hair. It is similar to Psl. angustoantennata sp. n. and Psl. paucispinata sp. n. It differs from both species by having very strongly toothed claws. It belongs to the Psl. bruckii group sensu Menzel & Mohrig (2000).

Distribution. Australia (Queensland).