Austrosciara multispinulata sp. n.

(Fig. 3 A–C)

Type locality: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Black Mountain .

Holotype: Male, 20.v.1963, Malaise trap, CSIRO, leg. I.F.B. Common, ASCT 00049056 (ASCU).

Paratypes: 3 males, Type locality, same data (2 in PWMP [ASCT00049057-58], 1 in ASCU [ASCT00049055]); 1 male, 7.vi.1978, N.S.W., Uralba Forest Reserve (Ballina), leg. B.J. Loudon, ASCT00050376 (PABM) .

Description. Male. Head. Brown. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Antenna brownish, with sparse and long erect hairs; 4th flagellomere with l/w index of nearly 4.0, hairs as long as the diameter of the basal node; neck brownish. Palpus 3-segmented, yellow, basal segment with 1–2 bristles and a patch of sensillae. Thorax. Brown. Scutum with fine pale hairs, some lateral and prescutellar bristles longer; scutellum with 4 longer marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1=1/2 R; R 5 in the distal third with ventral macrotrichia; C longer than 1/2 w; y somewhat shorter than x, without macrotrichia; posterior veins with macrotrichia: Haltere short, yellowish. Coxae and legs brown; apex of fore tibia with a broad comb of hyaline bristles, with a weakly arched border; spurs of middle and hind tibiae equal in size, longer than the diameter of the apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. Brownish, with short fine hairs. Hypopygium with a rather broadly v-shaped ventral base; gonocoxites at the inner ventral margin with short and sparse hairs; gonostylus large (nearly as long as the gonocoxite), oval and rounded, with short hairs, with 6 short spines, isolated and arranged on the inner side, the apical tooth of the same shape and size. Tegmen longer than broad, pyramid-like. Aedeagus rather long. Body length: 2.0 mm.

Comments. The species is characterized by macrotrichia on posterior wing veins, the large and bulbous-oval gonostylus with an apical tooth and 6 spines of nearly the same size and shape, isolated and arranged on the inner side, and long flagellomeres.

Distribution. Australia: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales.