Austrosciara winnertzi Skuse 1888, 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
Austrosciara
Austrosciara winnertzi

description: Austrosciara winnertzi (Skuse, 1888) comb. n.
(Fig. 8 A‒D)
Sciara winnertzi Skuse, 1888 [Skuse (1888): 709 ‒710; Skuse (1890: 407)].
Type locality. Australia, New South Wales, Glenbrook.
Lectotype (here designated): Male. Slide bears original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. winnertzi / Ƌ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse’ (print), ‘Glenbrook/ M.’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015. (ANIC; Slide No. 051-1). Paralectotypes. 2 males (not studied).
Remarks. Original description states “ Hab.—Glenbrook (Masters). November.” Preservation. Flagellomeres lost, body, legs and hypopygium in good condition, wings deformed.
= Sciara rufulenta Edwards, 1927 syn. n. [Tonnoir & Edwards (1927): 794, Figs 173, 174]. Type locality. New Zealand.
Holotype: Sciara rufulenta Edwards, 1927, male.
Literature: Mohrig & Jaschhof (1999): 22‒26, Fig. 10 a‒f (as Ctenosciara); Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 701 (as Ctenosciara); Wu et al. (2010): 47, Fig. 3 A‒F (as Ctenosciara).
Additional description. Male. Head. Eye bridge 3 facets wide; scape and pedicel ochry, flagellomeres lost; palpus 3-segmented. Thorax. Brown, with ochre parts on lateral sides of scutum and katepisternum; dorsocentral bristles and a few lateral bristles strong and dark; scutellum with 4 long marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1 rather long; R5 with macrotrichia dorsally along entire length; y nearly = x, with macrotrichia; M-stem weakly visible, with 3‒4 macrotrichia; M-fork long, M-branches and 2/3 of the CuA branches with macrotrichia. Haltere short, brownish. Legs yellowish; apex of fore tibia with a broad comb of hyaline bristles, 2‒3 of them separated (tibial organ); spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, longer than width of tibia apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. With dense and rather long, brownish hairs. Hypopygium ventrally with broad open base, without a lobe or bristle patch; gonocoxites with short and sparse hairs at the inner ventral margin; gonostylus with strong apical tooth and 5‒7 short spines in apical third (among bristle-like hairs); tegmen not visible. Body length: 2.4 mm.
Comments. The species is characterized by macrotrichia on all posterior wing veins, an ochry-spotted scutum, yellowish legs with a large comb of hyaline spines (2‒3 isolated) on the apex of fore tibia, an elongated gonostylus with a strong apical tooth and short spines among bristles in the apical third. It is identical to Ct. rufulenta (Edwards) from New Zealand (Mohrig & Jaschhof 1999: 24, fig. 10 a‒f). For a discussion of variability in this species see Mohrig & Jaschhof 1999: 25, fig. 11 a‒i).
Distribution. Australia (New South Wales), China, New Zealand.
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 413-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/167160