Bradysia pictipes ( Skuse, 1888 )

Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2018, New black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Eastern Australia, Zootaxa 4450 (2), pp. 203-241 : 224

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5989682
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487A5-FFE9-FF8B-FF74-FD6DFC1AFB5E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Bradysia pictipes ( Skuse, 1888 )
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Bradysia pictipes ( Skuse, 1888) View in CoL

Sciara pictipes View in CoL SkusE, 1888 [ SkusE (1888): 721 –722].

LitEraturE: BroaDlEy et al. (2016): 432–435, fig. 20 A–E; Vilkamaa et al. (2012b): 39–41, fig. 11 A–D (as Bradysia seticornis Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012 View in CoL ).

Material: 5 males, 17.–18.ii.2010, Victoria, Barnawatha, on Plane tree, leg. C. Murdoch ( VAIC73179 View Materials / 73180)( VAIC) ; 1 male, 14.xii.1978, New South Wales, Jerilderie , rotating net trap, leg. unknown, ASCT000138591 ( ASCU) ; 2 males, 7.iii.1977, Rydalmere , light trap, ASCT000138716 ( PWMP) ; 1 male, 21.vii.1977, Condobolin , ASCT00054877 ( PWMP), all leg. B.J. Loudon ; 2 males, 27.xi.2001, Tasmania, Bushy Park, on cherry tree in fruit orchard, leg. O. Seeman, (#25, Accession No. 130299) ( PABM / TAIC) .

Comments. The species is characterized by the brown body colour, long and thin flagellomeres with short hairs and brownish necks, slightly bulbous gonostylus without an apical tooth, with 3–4 apical spines and 1–2 dorsally arranged spines, and a rounded tegmen with a large area of scale-like teeth. It belongs perhaps to the B. procera group.

Distribution. Australia: New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria.