Queenslandomyia Wagner, 2018

Wagner, Rüdiger, 2018, Remarkable new Australian mothflies (Diptera, Psychodidae), Zootaxa 4457 (2), pp. 285-295 : 286

Queenslandomyia Wagner gen. nov.

Type species. Queenslandomyia cannula sp. nov., by present designation.

Etymology. The name refers to the state of Queensland / Australia; gender is female.

Diagnosis. Eyes contiguous; antenna with scape, pedicel and 14 flagellomeres; flagellomeres with terminal neck, flagellomeres 1–4 with outer digitate extension with apical apertures; a thin tube with a chiasma near the head basis (fig. 1e) runs through the head and the basal antennal segments into flagellomere 4 (fig. 1d); terminal palpus segment shorter than penultimate; parameres medially adhered to a large rectangular plate with apical spines; aedeagus with a clubbed long basiphallus; distiphallus a hook-shaped twisted pair of sclerites, linked by an H-shaped sclerite to the basiphallus; surstyles very long bent almost to a circle, recurved shortly before the tip, apically with 10–12 serrate retinacula.