Pseudolycoriella snellingi Mohrig, 2013

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 : 502-503

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.3718243

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC420F-FFA5-C128-7E84-21BA14F8FE14

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pseudolycoriella snellingi Mohrig, 2013
status

 

Pseudolycoriella snellingi Mohrig, 2013 View in CoL ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 A–B)

Pseudolycoriella snellingi Mohrig 2013 [Mohrig (2013): 156–157, fig. 26 a–f].

Material. 2 males, 8.viii.1997, Queensland, Mt Lewis , 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E, rain forest, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour, 1 in PABM GoogleMaps , 1 in PWMP; 1 male, 2 females, 13.vi.1997, same locality, leg. Seymour, in PWMP GoogleMaps .

Comments. The species is characterized by having 4–5 spines on the gonostylus (in the original description only 4 spines are mentioned; this was also illustrated in figure 26 a), a very long tegmen, short flagellomeres with a fine net-like surface sculpture, strongly toothed claws, a short whiplash-hair and a yellow body colour. The specimens from Queensland are identical to Psl. snellingi Mohrig from Papua New Guinea in all important characters. It belongs to the Psl. quadrispinosa group sensu Mohrig (2013).

Distribution. Australia (Queensland); Papua New Guinea. New record for Australia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sciaridae

Genus

Pseudolycoriella

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