Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) nigrita Hardy 1956
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Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) nigrita Hardy, 1956
(Fig. 21 A – C)
Scatopsciara (Uddmaniella) nigrita Hardy, 1956 [Hardy (1956): 86 – 89, fig. 11 a – d].
Literature: Hardy (1960): 231 – 232, fig. 78 a – d.
Material studied: Holotype: Male, 14.iii.1953, Hawai‘i, O‘ahu, Palolo Valley, reared from rotting Plumeria, leg. C.P. Hoyt [BPBM, No. 2488 in the literature (on slide 2388 and 2488)].
Further material: 2 males, 28.xii.2000, Hawai‘i, Maui, Hana, rain forest, caught by net, leg. W. Mohrig (PWMP).
Conservation status. E mbedded in Canada balsam. Head, palpus, antennae and wings isolated with wings under a separate cover slip. All morphological structures are in good condition.
Comments. The species is characterized by a short 3-segmented palpus with a large basal segment, fore tibia with a small comb-like row of bristles, a short R 1, hypopygium with a bare intergonocoxal space and short and sparse hairs on the inner ventral margin of the gonocoxites; gonostylus small, pointed to the apex, with a short apical tooth and 4 long subapical spines; a wide and flat tegmen, and short aedeagus.
Distribution. Hawaiian Islands (O‘ahu, Maui).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BPBM
- Event date
- 1953-03-14
- Family
- Sciaridae
- Genus
- Scatopsciara
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Hardy
- Species
- nigrita
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1953-03-14
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) nigrita Hardy, 1956 sec. Mohrig, Kauschke & Broadley, 2019
References
- Hardy, D. E. (1956) New Hawaiian Sciaridae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 16 (1), 72 - 90.
- Hardy, D. E. (1960) Family Sciaridae. In: Zimmerman, E. C. (Ed.), Insects of Hawaii. A Manual of the Insects of the Hawaiian Islands, including on Enumeration of the Species and Notes on their Origin, Distribution, Hosts, Parasites etc. 10. University Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 208 - 235.