Austrosciara infrequens ( Skuse, 1888 ) Skuse, 1888

Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen & Mohrig, Werner, 2016, Revision of the types of male Sciaridae (Diptera) described from Australia by F. A. A. Skuse, Zootaxa 4193 (3), pp. 401-450 : 410

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BD4B57FA-FCB5-45B5-BF3F-B824F6E21E9C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6089894

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/57338830-4D45-FF9C-FF2E-B2F0FD35FC71

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Plazi

scientific name

Austrosciara infrequens ( Skuse, 1888 )
status

comb. nov.

Austrosciara infrequens ( Skuse, 1888) View in CoL comb. n.

( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A‒B)

Sciara infrequens Skuse, 1888 View in CoL [ Skuse (1888): 719 ‒720].

Type locality. Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Elizabeth Bay .

Holotype. Male. Original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. infrequens / Ƌ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse (print)’, ‘Sydney/ S’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015. ( ANIC; Slide No. 028).

Remarks. In the original description Skuse noted “ Hab.—Elizabeth Bay (Skuse). January.”

Preservation. Head missing, scutum damaged, other morphological details in good condition.

Additional description. Male. Head. Missing. Thorax. Brown, prescutellar and few lateral bristles strong and dark; scutellum with 4 longer marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1 = 2/3 R; R5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; y nearly = x, without macrotrichia; M-stem weak, without macrotrichia; M-fork weak, without macrotrichia, M-branches distally with macrotrichia and CuA1 with macrotrichia in the distal third. Haltere short, brownish. Legs yellowish; apex of fore tibia with a broad comb of hyaline bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, longer than width of apex of tibia; claws without teeth. Abdomen. With rather long, sparse brownish hairs. Hypopygium ventrally with a broad open base, without lobe or bristle patch; gonocoxites with short and sparse hairs on inner ventral margin; gonostylus with short apical tooth and 5‒6 slightly longer spines in the apical half (sometimes arranged in pairs), one smaller spine above the tooth; tegmen longer than wide; aedeagus short. Body length: 2.0 mm.

Comments. This species is characterized by macrotrichia on posterior wing veins (branches of M-fork and CuA1), yellowish legs with a broad comb of hyaline spines on the apex of fore tibia; elongated gonostylus with an apical tooth and longer spines within bristles of the same size in the apical half.

Distribution. Australia (New South Wales).

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sciaridae

Genus

Austrosciara

Loc

Austrosciara infrequens ( Skuse, 1888 )

Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen & Mohrig, Werner 2016
2016
Loc

Sciara infrequens

Skuse 1888: 719
1888
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