Docidiadia BLAGODEROV & GRIMALDI 2004, new genus
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Description
Docidiadia, new genus
DIAGNOSIS: Head round. Flagellum 14segmented. First flagellomere length slightly more than width. Fore tibial comb absent. Wing membrane without macrotrichia. C ends beyond tip of R 5; Sc long, ends free; RS base at the middle of R 1; crossveins rm,
TABLE 1 Nomenclature and Homology of Sciaroid Wing Veins According to Authors See also figures 80 and 81.
tb, and mcu in one line; M3 section and base of M fork absent; CuA strongly curved back at the apex. A short. Male 9th tergite without marginal bristles, with one large, acute, triangular medial appendage and two small lateral ones; gonostyli do not bifurcate at apex.
TYPE SPECIES: Docidiadia burmitica, n.sp.
ETYMOLOGY: The name is a feminine anagram of Diadocidia.
COMMENTS: The genus is close to Diadocidia Ruthe, but differs in having the first flagellomere short; wing membrane without macrotrichia, Sc ending free, base of RS rather distal, M3 section and base of M fork reduced; CuA curved at apex rather than with two straight sections; and male tergite IX narrow, triangular, and with two lateral appendages. Diadocidia consists of two subgenera and includes 10 Holarctic species (Chandler, 1994; Laštovka and Matile, 1972; Polevoi, 1996; Wu, 1995; Zaitzev, 1994) and a Neotropical one (Edwards, 1940; Papavero, 1977a), as well as undescribed Australian species (Tonnoir, 1929; Colless, 1963). One species is known from Baltic amber (Evenhuis, 1994).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Diadocidiidae
- Genus
- Docidiadia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- BLAGODEROV & GRIMALDI
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Docidiadia BLAGODEROV & GRIMALDI, 2004
References
- Chandler, P. J. 1994. The fungus gnats of Israel (Diptera: Sciaroidea, excluding Sciaridae). Israel Journal of Entomology 28: 1 - 100.
- Lastovka, P., and L. Matile. 1972. Revision des Diadocidia holarctiques (Dipt. Mycetophilidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France. N. S. 8 (1): 205 - 223.
- Polevoi, A. 1996. New and poorly known fungus gnats of the families Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae and Keroplatidae from eastern Fennoscandia (Diptera, Nematocera). Zoosystematica Rossica 4 (1): 177 - 182.
- Wu, H. 1995. Diptera: Diadocididae [Diadocidiidae] and Keroplatidae. In H. Wu (editor), Insects of Baishanzu Mountain, eastern China: 423 - 434. Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House.
- Zaitzev, A. I. 1994. Gribnye komary fauny Rossii i sopredelnykh regionov. Chast 1. [Fungus gnats of the fauna of Russia and adjacent regions. Part 1]. Moscow: Nauka, 288 pp. [in Russian]
- Edwards, F. W. 1940. Redefinitions and synonymy of some genera of amber fungus-gnats (Diptera, Mycetophilidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London Ser. B 9: 120 - 26.
- Papavero, N. 1977 a. Family Diadocidiidae. A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States 19 A: 1 - 3. Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo.
- Tonnoir, A. L. 1929. Australian Mycetophilidae. Synopsis of the genera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 584 - 614.
- Colless D. H. 1963. New species of Ohakunea Edwards and related new genus with notes on the relationships of Heterotricha Loew (Diptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87 (3): 303 - 308.
- Evenhuis, N. L. 1994. Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera). Leiden: Backhuys, 600 pp.