Cratyna (Cratyna) flagria Mohrig, 1999, 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 : 457

Cratyna (Cratyna) flagria Mohrig, 1999

( Fig. 4 A–D)

Literature: Mohrig (1999): 179–180, fig. 23 a–c.

Material: 1 male, 13.vi.1997, Queensland, Mt Lewis , 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E, wet tropics; 1 male, 8.viii.1997, same locality, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour ( PWMP; PABM).

Comments. The species is characteriZed by flagellomeres with short basal nodes and two irregular rows of very long, cecidomyiid-like bristles and necks nearly as long as the basal node. Palpus 2-segmented, short and small. Gonocoxite short, intergonocoxal space closed, gonostylus larger than gonocoxite, elongate-oval and compact, with 5 short hyaline apical/subapical spines. Tegmen with a funnel-like apical structure.

Distribution. Australia, Queensland; Papua New Guinea.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Cratyna (Cratyna) flagria Mohrig. A. Hypopygium; B. Male in toto; C. Flagellomeres 3 – 6; D. ApeX of fore tibia.