Scatopsciara Mohrig & Kauschke, 2016, sp. n.

• Main Authors: Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Sciaridae; Scatopsciara; Canada; Fuller; Hippa; fratercula
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6075533; https://zenodo.org/record/6075533

Scatopsciara (X enopygina ) abedabunae sp. n. * (Fig. 13 A–B) Locus typicus : Canada, Alberta, Munn Creek, 53.30°N, 118.10°W, spruce forest. Holotype : Male, 11.vi.– 24.vii.1994, leg. E. Fuller, Malaise trap (PWMP). Paratypes : 1 male, same data; 1 male, 30.iv.–11.vi.1994, leg. E. Fuller, Alberta, Berland River at Hwy 40, 53.42°N, 118.20°W, pine forest, Malaise trap (PWMP); 1 male, 24.vii.1974, leg. P. H. Arnaud, USA, Oregon, Crook County, Cougar Campground, Marks Creek (CAS). Description . Male. Head . Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. 4th flagellomere with l/w-index 2.2, haired as long as wide. Palpus 3-segmented, short; basal segment without deepened sensory pit and with 2–3 bristles. Thorax . Brown. Scutum haired whitish. Wings pale; R1= 2/3 R; c = ½ w; y shorter x, bare; posterior veins bare. Haltere short, brownish. Legs brownish; tibial organ small, comb-like; spurs of middle and hind tibiae with long but unequal spurs; claws toothless. Abdomen . Brown, haired whitish. Hypopygium brown, ventral base nearly closed and haired denser than the inner ventral margin of gonocoxites; gonocoxites slightly longer than gonostylus; gonostylus without apical tooth, with 5 spines near the apex and 2 closely neighboring spines in the middle of inner side, all spines with rather strong bases. Tegmen simple. Body size: 2.2 mm. Comments . The species is characterized by large gonostylus with 5 separate apical spines and a spine pair on a relatively large base in the middle of gonostylus. It is similar to Sc. fratercula Vilkamaa & Hippa but differs by the unfused base of the two spines at the inner side of gonostylus and the v-shaped base of the hypopygium. The species belongs to the Sc. paradoxa group. Distribution . USA (Oregon), Canada (Alberta). *Abedabun = sight of day, Cheyenne. : 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 page 416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/267128