Cratyna (Pictosciara) vera Mohrig, 2004

Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2017, Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of Queensland, Australia. Part I. Genera Chaetosciara Frey, Corynoptera Winnertz, Cratyna Winnertz, Epidapus Haliday, Keilbachia Mohrig, Lobosciara Steffan, Phytosciara Frey and Scatopsciara Edwards, Zootaxa 4303 (4), pp. 451-481 : 465

Cratyna (Pictosciara) vera Mohrig, 2004

( Fig. 10 A–C)

Literature: Mohrig (2004): 141–142, fig. 11 a–e.

Material: 1 male, 8.vii.2000, Australia, Queensland, surroundings of Cairns, Tablelands, Millaa Millaa Falls , wet tropics, leg. W. Mohrig ; 1 male, 13.vi.1997, Mt Lewis , 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E, wet tropics, leg. J. Seymour ( PWMP; PABM).

Comments. Cratyna vera is the type species of the subgenus Pictosciara Mohrig , 2004, described from Papua New Guinea. It is characteriZed by a short 3-segmented palpus with a sensory pit on the basal segment, yellow gonocoxite, and dark brown gonostylus with a short apical tooth and 4 longer spines in the apical third.

Distribution. Australia, Queensland; Papua New Guinea.

Genus Epidapus HALIDAY, 1851

Type species: Epidapus venaticus Haliday, 1856 – Insecta Brit. Dipt. 3: 56; monotypy [= Tipula atomaria De Geer, 1778 ]. Literature: Tuomikoski (1960): 96–100; Mohrig & Jaschhof (1999): 29–36; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 299–339; Mohrig (2004): 150–160; Vilkamaa et al. (2014): 429–436.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Cratyna (Pictosciara) vera Mohrig. A. Hypopygium; B. Palpus; C. Flagellomeres 4 – 5.