Dolichosciara
Creators: name: Wu, Hong
name: Shi, Kai
name: Huang, Junhao
name: Zhang, Sujiong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Dolichosciara

description: Key to the species of Dolichosciara from China (males)
1. Gonostylus impressed apicomesially (Fig. 1 A, Fig. 2 A, Fig. 3 A, Fig. 4 A, C)....................................... 2
- Gonostylus not impressed apicomesially (Fig. 6 A, Fig. 7 A, Fig. 8 A, Fig. 9 A)......................................7
2. Gonostylus slightly impressed apicomesially, with four megasetae located below the impression (Fig. 1 A)..................................................................................................... D. sparsula sp. nov.
- Gonostylus strongly impressed apicomesially, with more than five megasetae located in the impression (Fig. 2 A, Fig. 3 A, Fig. 4 A, C).............................................................................................. 3
3. Basal segment of palpus with a black spot on its apex, megesetae slender and thin (Fig. 2 A, C)....... D. gracilenta sp. nov.
- Basal segment of palpus without a black spot, megesetae thick.................................................. 4
4. Apex of gonostylus nearly sharp, with thickened setae, megasetae located subapically on gonostylus............................................................................................... D. megumiae (Sasakawa, 1994)
- Apex of gonostylus blunt, with normal setae, megasetae located apicomesially on gonostylus (Fig. 3 A, Fig. 4 A, C)........ 5
5. Gonostylus with less than nine sharp megasetae uneven in size, intercoxal area of hypopygium bare (Fig. 3 A, B)............................................................................................. D. oxyacantha sp. nov.
- Gonostylus with more than ten straight and thickened megasetae subequal in size, intercoxal area of hypopygium setose or having an intercoxal lobe of hypopygium (Fig. 4 A, B, C)...................................................... 6
6. Hypopygium without intercoxal lobe (Fig. 4 B)............................................ D. scrobiculata sp. nov.
- Hypopygium with a large intercoxal lobe.............................................. D. ninae (Antonova, 1977)
7. Intercoxal lobe of hypopygium present................................................ D. flavipes (Meigen, 1804)
- Intercoxal lobe of hypopygium absent..................................................................... 8
8. Dorsal lobe of gonostylus present............................................. .. D. intermedialis (Antonova, 1977)
- Dorsal lobe of gonostylus absent......................................................................... 9
9. Intercoxal area of hypopygium bare................................................ D. orcina (Tuomikoski, 1960)
- Intercoxal area of hypopygium setose.....................................................................10
10. Gonostylus subparallel-sided, with 9–12 megasetae................................ D. semiferruginea (Menzel, 1995)
- Gonostylus not subparallel-sided, eventually narrowed towards apex, with less than nine megasetae................... 11
11. Gonostylus slightly inflated apicomesially, with 7–8 megasetae (Fig.6 A)........................... D. tumidula sp. nov.
- Gonostylus slender, with less than six megasetae (Fig. 7 A, 8A)................................................ 12
12. Gonostylus with 4–5 straight megasetae located submesially (Fig. 7 A)......................... D. rectospinosa sp. nov.
- Gonostylus with 3–5 slightly curved megasetae located subapically (Fig. 8 A)..................................... 13
13. Megasetae on gonostylus partly not visible in ventral view (Fig. 8 A)............................ D. multisetosa sp. nov.
- Megasetae on gonostylus completely visible in ventral view (Fig. 9 A)...........................................14
14. Megasetae longer than apical width of gonostylus............................. D. hippai Komarova & Vilkamaa, 2006
- Megasetae as long as or shorter than apical width of gonostylus (Fig. 9 A)........................................ 15
15. Length of tegmen twice its width.......................................... D. subornata (Mohrig & Menzel, 1994)
- Length of tegmen nearly as long as its width (Fig. 9 B).......................................................16
16 Megasetae shorter than apical width of gonostylus...................................... D. ornata (Winnertz, 1867)
- Megasetae as long as apical width of gonostylus (Fig. 9 A)............................... D. qingliangfengana sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Wu, Hong, Shi, Kai, Huang, Junhao & Zhang, Sujiong, 2013, Review of the genus Dolichosciara Tuomikoski (Diptera, Sciaridae) from China, pp. 343-364 in Zootaxa 3745 (3) on pages 344-345, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/222852