Pseudolycoriella fuscovenosa, 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 : 494

Pseudolycoriella fuscovenosa sp. n.

( Fig. 5 A–C)

Type locality: Australia, Queensland, Palm Cove, near Cairns.

Holotype: Male, 3.vii.2000, mangrove forest along the coastline, caught by sweep net, leg. W. Mohrig, in ANIC.

Paratypes: 2 males, 8.viii.1997, Black Mountain Road near Kuranda, 33 km WNW of Cairns, in PWMP ; 1 male, 29.viii.1997, same locality, in PWMP ; 2 males, 4.iv.1997, Mt Lewis , 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E, rain forest, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour, 1 in PABM , 1 in PKHH.

Description. Male. Head: Ovoid, mouth parts somewhat elongate; eye bridge 3 facets wide; antennae brown; 4 th flagellomere with a l/w index of 2.2, with short neck, surface somewhat rough, hairs as long as the diameter of the basal node; palpus 3-segmented; basal segment with 6–7 bristles and a patch of short sensilla. Thorax: Dark brown; central parts of scutum darkened, with short dorsocentral and 2–3 stronger lateral hairs; scutellum with 4 longer marginal hairs; postpronotum bare. Wing brownish, all veins darkened; 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 brownish; fore tibiae at the inner apex with a distinct patch of bristles and a semicircular border; spurs of middle and hind tibiae of the same size, brownish and longer than the diameter of the apex; claws strongly toothed. Abdomen: Tergal and sternal hairs moderately short and sparse; hypopygium brown, ventrally and on the inner ventral margin of gonocoxites with short sparse hairs; gonostylus elongate, apically rounded, with two short spines of the same size and a longer whip-lash hair; tegmen as wide as long, apically rounded; aedeagus rather short, with a large basal furca. Body length: 2.5 mm.

Comments. The species is characterized by the apically rounded gonostylus with two short spines and a longer whip-lash hair. It belongs to the Psl. bruckii group sensu Menzel & Mohrig (2000).

Distribution. Australia (Queensland).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Pseudolycoriella fuscovenosa sp. n. A. Hypopygium; B. Flagellomeres 4–5; C. Apex of fore tibia.