Scatopsciara (Xenopygina) inesae Mohrig & Kauschke, 2016, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mohrig, Werner
name: Kauschke, Ellen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Scatopsciara
Scatopsciara inesae

description: Scatopsciara (Xenopygina) inesae sp. n. *
(Fig. 15 A–B)
Locus typicus: USA, Texas, Houston, suburban settlement. Holotype: Male, 15.ii.1996, leg. I. Eue, yellow trap (PWMP). Paratypes: 1 male, same data; 3 males, 27.ii.1996, Houston, open oak forest, yellow trap, all leg. I. Eue; 1 male, 13.–22.ix.1993, leg. N. McFarland, Arizona, Cochise County, Huachuca Mts., Ash Canyon Road, 31.39°N, 111.24°W, oak-pine woodland, 5100 ft., Malaise trap; 1 male, 22.–31.x.1993, same location; 6 males, 13.– 19.iv.1996, USA, California, Los Angeles County, San Gabriel Canyon, maple, 800 m, yellow trap, leg. W. Mohrig; 8 males, 4.–9.iii.1996; 1 male, 7.–13.iv.1996; 1 male, 29.ii.1996, leg. W. Mohrig, caught by net, same location; 3 males, 26.ii.–1.iii.1996, Los Angeles City, Griffith Park, yellow trap, leg. W. Mohrig; (PWMP, 2 males in PKHH, 1 male SDEI, 1 male MZH).
Further material: 16 males, 4.–9.iii.1996; 4 males, 7.–13.iv.1996; 1 male, 13.–17.iv.1996, yellow trap; 2 males, 29.ii.1996, leg. W. Mohrig, caught by net, USA, California, Los Angeles County, San Gabriel Canyon, maple, 800 m; 1 male, 26.ii.–1.iii.1996, leg. W. Mohrig, Los Angeles, Griffith Park, yellow trap; 3 males, 13.– 22.ix.1993; 1 male, 5.–30.viii.1993, leg. N. McFarland, Arizona, Cochise County, Huachuca Mts., Ash Canyon Road, 31.39°N, 111.24°W, oak-pine woodland, 5100 ft., Malaise trap; 1 male, 9.–30.viii.1995, leg. S. Prchal, USA, Arizona, Pima County, Tucson Mountains, 16 km W Tucson, 32.24°N. 111.13°W, Sonora desert, Malaise trap (PWMP).
Description. Male. Head. Eye bridge 3–4 facets wide. 4th flagellomere with l/w-index 2, haired as long as wide, brownish. Palpus 3-segmented, short; basal segment without deepened sensory pit, with 2 bristles. Thorax. Brown; scutum haired brown, with longer praescutellar and lateral bristles. Wings pale; R1: R = 0.7; c = 2/3 w; posterior veins bare. Haltere short, brown. Legs brownish; tibial organ of fore tibia small, comb-like, with 5–6 bristles on a small lobe; spurs of middle and hind tibiae with long, but somewhat unequally long spurs; claws toothless. Abdomen. Brown, haired brownish. Hypopygium brown, ventral base nearly closed; gonocoxites longer than gonostylus, inner ventral margin haired short and sparsely. Gonostylus bulbously, without apical tooth, with 2 curved apical spines. Tegmen large, trapezoid. Body size: 2.2 mm.
Comments. The species is characterized by gonostylus without apical tooth but with two slightly curved apical spines only.
Distribution. USA (Texas, Arizona, California).
*The species is named in honor of our friend and former colleague Dr. Ines Eue, working at the University of Texas, Houston from 1995 to1997.
description: Published as part of Mohrig, Werner & Kauschke, Ellen, 2016, New Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of North America Part I. Genus Scatopsciara Edwards, 1927, pp. 401-435 in Zootaxa 4150 (4) on pages 420-421, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/267128