Phytosciara (Dolichosciara) bella, Mohrig, 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 : 469

Phytosciara (Dolichosciara) bella MOHRIG, 1999 ( Fig. 14 A–D; 17 A)

Literature: Mohrig (1999): 185–186, fig. 27 a–e.

Material. 1 male, Australia, Queensland, Mt Lewis , 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E, wet forest, Malaise trap, leg. J. Seymour ( PWMP).

Comments. The species is characteriZed by flagellomeres with a very rough surface, a yellowish scape and pedicel, yellow and black spotted body colour, only 2 long strong bristles on the ventral apex of the gonocoxite; 3– 4 fine hyaline spines below the apical hairs of gonostylus, a simple tegmen (as long as broad, apically rounded) and a small intergonocoxal space, with divergent hairs. The specimen from Australia differs somewhat regarding the last character. The intergonocoxal space is somewhat lobe-like with two patches of short divergent bristles (not enough for taxonomic separation).

Distribution. Australia, Queensland; Papua New Guinea.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Phytosciara bella Mohrig, 1999. A. Ventral base of hypopygium; B. Hypopygium; C. Flagellomeres 4 – 5; D. Wing.