Austrosciara Schmitz & Mjöberg, 1924

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 : 408-409

Genus Austrosciara Schmitz & Mjöberg, 1924

Type species: Austrosciara termitophila Schmitz & Mjöberg, 1924 .

Literature: Schmitz & Mjöberg (1924): 1‒3, Fig. 1 ; Mohrig & Jaschhof (1999, as Ctenosciara ); Vilkamaa et al. (2012b, as Ctenosciara ); Mohrig (2013, as Ctenosciara ).

Remarks. The genus was described on the basis of 5 females with strongly reduced wings and halteres, collected from galleries of the termite Glyptotermes brevicornis Froggatt (= trilineatus Mjöberg) in Cedar Creek , Queensland . We have studied males and females of three species of wing reduced (brachypterous) sciarids from New South Wales. One of these species is identical to Aus. termitophila Schmitz & Mjöberg however it belongs to the genus Ctenosciara Tuomikoski, 1960 . Ctenosciara therefore is to be considered a junior synonym of Austrosciara Schmitz & Mjöberg ( Mohrig et al. 2016b) .

FIGURE 4. Generalized morphological structures of Sciaridae . A. Thorax (after Hippa et al. 2010). 1=antepronotum; 2=postpronotum; 3=prothoracic episternum; 4=mesonotum (scutum); 5=scutellum; 6=mediotergite; 7=anterior anepisternum; 8=mesothoracic epimeron; 9= katepisternum; 10=pleural pit; 11=laterotergite; 12=metathoracic episternum; 13=haltere; 14=anterior spiracle; 15=posterior spiracle. B. Hypopygium ventral side (left half, after Menzel & Mohrig, 2000), 1=gonostylus; 2=gonocoxite; 3=apical tooth; 4=apical/subapical spines; 5=megaseta on ventral apex of gonocoxite; 6=tegmen; 7= ventral base of hypopygium (intergonocoxal space, v-shaped in this case) C. Basal hypopygial structures (Jaschhof, personal drawing). 1=cercus; 2=hypoproct; 3=aedeagal teeth; 4=furca; 5=tegmen; 6=ejaculatory apodeme (aedeagus); 7=ventral parameral apodeme; 8=dorsal parameral apodeme. D. Apex of fore tibia (with comb-like row of bristles as in Bradysia species, tibial organ). E. Hairs, spines and tooth a=hair, b=bristle, c=whiplash hair, d=awl like spine, e= spines (dark or hyaline), f=large curved spine, g=tooth (spines always inserting on a basal protuberance; tooth without basal protuberances); (Mohrig et al. 2013). F. Wing A1/A2=first and second branches of anal vein, C=costal vein; c=distance between apex of vein R4+5 (R5) and the end of vein C; CuA1/CuA2 first and second branches of anterior branch of cubital vein; CuB=posterior branch of cubital vein; H=humeral cross vein; M1/M2= branches of medial vein (M-fork); R= radial vein (radius); R1=anterior branch of radius; R5=radial vein of; y=r-m; Rs=radial sector; Sc=subcosta; W=distance between apex of vein R5 to apex of vein M1; X=base of vein M (bM); (Mohrig et al. 2013).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Portrait photograph of Frederick Skuse, Australian Museum, dated December 1890. Image courtesy of the State Library of New South Wales.