Bradysia conjuncta Skuse 1890, comb. n.
Creators: name: Broadley, Adam
name: Kauschke, Ellen
name: Mohrig, Werner
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Bradysia
Bradysia conjuncta

description: Bradysia conjuncta (Skuse, 1890) comb. n.
(Fig. 10 A‒F)
Sciara conjuncta Skuse, 1890 [Skuse (1890): 403 ‒404].
Type locality. Australia, New South Wales, Woronora.
Lectotype (here designated): Male. Slide bears original label data verbatim ‘ Sciara conjuncta / Ƌ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse’ (print), ‘Woronora/ Sept. SK.’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015. (ANIC; Slide No. 010).
Paralectotypes. 1 male, same locality data (PWMP); 4 males, same data (not studied); 5 males missing.
Remarks. The original description states “ Hab.—Woronora, N.S.W. (Skuse). Eleven specimens in September.”
Preservation. Well preserved in all details.
= Sciara serenipennis Skuse, 1890 syn. n. [Skuse (1890): 402 ‒403].
Type locality. Australia, New South Wales, Mount Kosciuszko.
Holotype: Male. Original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. serenipennis / Ƌ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse’ (print), ‘ K36719 / Sciara serenipennis, Sk. / Mount Kosciusco’ (ink), ‘ Kosciusko / NSW / Helms III 89 ’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015. (AM; Slide No. 054).
Remarks. Original description states “ Hab.—Mount Kosciusko, N.S.W., 5000 ft. (Helms); in Coll. Australian Mus. March.”
Preservation. Head and thorax lost.
Additional description. Male. Head. Dark brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Antenna brown, necks short, brownish; 4th flagellomere with l/w-index of 2.5, with dense, pale hairs, shorter than the width of the basal node; palpus 3-segmented, basal segment with deep sensory pit and 1 bristle (sometimes 2). Thorax. Dark brown, scutum with rather long and dark dorsocentral as well as a few lateral bristles; scutellum with 2 long marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1 = 2/3 R; R5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; C = 2/3 w; y somewhat shorter than x, without macrotrichia; posterior veins weak, without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brown. Legs dark brown; fore tibia with a broad comb (somewhat wavy) of pale bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, thin, somewhat longer than the width of tibia at apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. Dark brown, with sparse, rather short brownish hairs. Hypopygium dark brown, with broad v-shaped ventral base, without lobe or bristle patch; gonocoxites with fine and rather short hairs on the inner ventral margin, on ventral apex with 2 strong megasetae (Fig. 10 D); gonostylus weakly bulbous, without apical tooth, with 6‒7 short apical/subapical spines among the dense hairs of the apex; tegmen small, wider than long, truncate apically, with large area of teeth and with short ventral parameral apodeme; aedeagus rather long and robust. Body length: 3.0 mm.
Comments. This species is characterized by a dark body colour; palpus with a sensory pit, a robust gonostylus with 6‒7 short spines among dense bristles at the apex and 1 thick megaseta on the ventral apex of the gonocoxites.
Distribution. Australia (New South Wales).
description: Published as part of Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen & Mohrig, Werner, 2016, Revision of the types of male Sciaridae (Diptera) described from Australia by F. A. A. Skuse, pp. 401-450 in Zootaxa 4193 (3) on pages 416-419, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/167160