Phytosciara (Dolichosciara) conturbata, Mohrig. A. Hypopygium, 1999

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 : 472

Phytosciara (Dolichosciara) conturbata MOHRIG, 1999 ( Fig. 15 A –B; 17 B)

Literature: Mohrig (1999): 183–184, fig. 26 a–d.

Material. 1 male, 8.viii.1997, Australia, Queensland, Mt Lewis , 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E, wet forest, Malaise trap ; 1 male, 13.vi.1997, Black Mountain Road near Kuranda, 33 km WNW of Cairns, wet forest, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour ( PWMP; PABM) .

Comments. This species is characteriZed by a long basal lobe of the hypopygium, just one long robust bristle on the ventral apex of the gonocoxite, a slender gonostylus with two fine hyaline spines (or spine-like bristles) below apical hairs (not really different from bristles on the inner side). It has been described from Gulf Province, Papua-New Guinea.

Distribution. Australia, Queensland; Papua New Guinea.

Figures

FIGURE 15. A. Phytosciara conturbata Mohrig. A. Hypopygium; B. Flagellomeres 4 – 5.