Cratyna (Pictosciara) brevipalpis ( Steffan, 1969 ) Broadley & Kauschke & Mohrig, 2019

Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen & Mohrig, Werner, 2019, Revision of the black fungus gnat species (Diptera: Sciaridae) described by W. A. Steffan from Micronesia, Zootaxa 4683 (2), pp. 215-241 : 225

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C1558CDD-AD51-4CB5-A170-003ED5D5E461

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797631

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F2879E-8154-FFF7-FF4D-FCC7ABFAFBC2

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Cratyna (Pictosciara) brevipalpis ( Steffan, 1969 )
status

comb. nov.

Cratyna (Pictosciara) brevipalpis ( Steffan, 1969) View in CoL , comb. n.

( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 A–D)

Corynoptera brevipalpis Steffan, 1969 View in CoL [ Steffan (1969): 695 –697, fig. 10 a–h].

Literature: Steffan (1974): 45–46 (as Corynoptera brevipalpis View in CoL ).

Material studied: Holotype: Male, 5.vi.1957, Micronesia, Caroline Islands, Palau Is., Babelthuap I., Imeliik, Netkeng, leg. C.W. Sabrosky (USNMENT 2083267).

Paratype, male, same data as the holotype, except 6.vi.1957 ( BPBM, without registration number) .

Conservation status: Embedded in Hoyer’s medium. Head, body and a wing isolated under cover slip. Thorax and hypopygium are depressed and deformed.

Comments. The species is characterized by a very short 3-segmented palpus, the first two segments swollen; a short gonostylus, pointed to the apex, with a very short apical tooth and 3–4 short and thin hyaline spines. The species belongs to the subgenus Pictosciara Mohrig and it is very similar (maybe identical) to Cr. adrostylata Hardy from the Hawaiian Islands. The unique differences are the short and nearly quadratic flagellomeres of Cr. adrostylata Hardy , whereas these of Cr. brevipalpis Steffan are distinctly longer than wide. All other details seem to be identical but we cannot be certain because of the deformed morphological structures. The body is bleached but it seems that the gonostylus is somewhat darker than the gonocoxites, typical for Cratyna (Pictosciara) vera Mohrig, 2004 .

Distribution. Caroline Islands (Babelthuap I.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sciaridae

Genus

Cratyna

Loc

Cratyna (Pictosciara) brevipalpis ( Steffan, 1969 )

Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen & Mohrig, Werner 2019
2019
Loc

Corynoptera brevipalpis

Steffan, W. A. 1969: 695
1969
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF