Pseudolycoriella breviradiata, Mohrig & Kauschke & Broadley, 2020

Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2020, Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of Queensland, Australia. Part II. Genus Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig, 1998, Zootaxa 4751 (3), pp. 487-506 : 490-491

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0FCACF65-C125-414C-9848-F96BD0571F73
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3718259
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC420F-FFA9-C13C-7E84-23FF121BFEAF
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pseudolycoriella breviradiata
status	sp. nov.

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Pseudolycoriella breviradiata View in CoL sp. n.

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Type locality: Australia, Queensland, Black Mountain Road near Kuranda, 33 km WNW of Cairns.

Holotype: Male, 8.viii.1997, rain forest, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour, in ANIC.

Paratypes: 1 male, same data, in PABM ; 1 male, 29.vi.1997, same locality, leg. J. Seymour, in PWMP .

Description. Male. Head: Ovoid, mouth parts weakly elongate; eye bridge 3 facets wide; antennae brown; 4 th flagellomere with a l/w index of 1.8 and a rather long neck, surface of flagellomere somewhat rough, some sensilla inserted in deeper pits, hairs as long as the diameter of the basal node; palpus 3-segmented; basal segment with 5–6 bristles and a patch of short sensilla. Thorax: Brown; scutum with short dorsocentral and a few more robust lateral hairs; scutellum with 2 longer posterior hairs; postpronotum bare. Wing pale, with distinct veins; R 1 = 2/3 R; R 5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; C = 3/4 w; y = x, bare; Cu-stem rather short; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, with darkened knob; legs brownish; fore tibiae at the inner apex with a distinct row-like patch of bristles, not bordered; spurs of middle and hind tibiae of the same size, yellowish, as long as the diameter of the apex; claws finely toothed. Abdomen: Tergal and sternal hairs moderately long and sparse; hypopygium brown, gonocoxites ventrally and on the inner ventral margin with rather short and sparse hairs; gonostylus elongate and rather broad, apically rounded and with two rather long spines of unequal size and a long whip-lash hair; tegmen wider than long, apically rounded; aedeagus rather long, with a large basal furca. Body length: 2.2 mm.

Comments. The species is similar to Psl. angustoantennata sp. n. It differs mainly by possessing longer flagellomeres and two unequal apical spines on the gonostylus. It belongs to the Psl. longicostalis group sensu Mohrig (2013).

Distribution. Australia (Queensland).