Phytosciara (Dolichosciara) pseudoornata, 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 : 472-473

Phytosciara (Dolichosciara) pseudoornata MOHRIG, 1999 ( Fig. 16 A –B; 17 C)

Literature: Mohrig (1999): 187–188, fig. 29 a–d.

Material. 11 males, 8.vii.2000, Australia, Queensland, Fig Tree Cathedral, Gilles Highway near Cairns , wet forest, caught by net, leg. W. Mohrig ; 20 males, 8 females, 13.vi.1997; 1 male, 1 female, 23.vi.1997; 5 males, 11 females, 29.vi.1997; 13 males, 15 females, 8.viii.1997, Queensland, Mt Lewis, 37 km WSW of Port Douglas , 16°35´S, 145°16´E, wet forest, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour ( PWMP; 2 males, 1 female in ANIC; 2 males in PABM).

Comments. The species is characteriZed by a yellow scape and pedicel, a yellowish thorax, a long y without or with just 1–2 macrotrichia, a yellow hypopygium with a darkened gonostylus, gonocoxite with 2 long strong bristles, a gonostylus with 4 strong spines on dorsal side, a small intergonocoxal lobe with a few bristles, and a longer than broad tegmen. The species has been described from Papua New Guinea. It is a common species within wet forests.

Distribution. Australia, Queensland; Papua New Guinea.

Genus Scatopsciara EDWARDS, 1927

Type species: Sciara quinquelineata Macquart, 1834: 149 (= Sciara vitripennis Meigen, 1818 ).

Literature: Tonnoir & Edwards (1927): 798 (as subgenus of Sciara Meigen ); Tuomikoski 1960: 150–156; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 480–508; Mohrig (2004): 166–168; Vilkamaa et al. (2012d): 67–74.

Figures

FIGURE 16. A. Phytosciara pseudoornata Mohrig. A. Hypopygium; B. Flagellomeres 4 – 5.