Pseudolycoriella, Menzel & Mohrig, 1998

Köhler, Arne, 2019, The genus Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig, 1998 (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Zealand, Zootaxa 4707 (1), pp. 1-69 : 20

Pseudolycoriella sp. II

Material studied. 1♀, New Zealand: South Island , Canterbury , Selwyn , Cass, Middle Bush, 17.11.1998, Malaise trap, leg. P.M. Johns ( SDEI, SDEI-Dipt-0000745) .

Genetic distances. The nearest neighbour of the COI-sequence of Psl. sp. II is Psl. orite , diverging by a minimum of 10.89%. The one successfully sequenced 28S sequence is identical to those of Psl. zealandica and Psl. aotearoa .

Discussion. The molecular analysis of the female specimen SDEI-Dipt-0000745 revealed an isolated cluster for all three genetic markers, and consequently a well separated cluster in the consensus tree shown in Figure 61 . Therefore, the presence of a new and undescribed species is very likely, but without conspecific male specimens a reasonable description allowing meaningful comparisons with other Pseudolycoriella species is not possible.

Figures

FIGURE 61. Phylogenetic tree of the New Zealand Pseudolycoriella species inferred from Maximum Likelihood analysis based on three concatenated genes (COI, 16S, and 28S; total length 3,053 bp) applying the model GTR+F+R4. Ultrafast bootstrap values (UFBoot; 1,000 replicates) are given if these values are greater than or equal to 95%. Intraspecific UFBoot values are not specified. Pseudolycoriella species without available genetic data are also inserted and assigned to a species complex according to the morphological results.