Bradysia parareflexa Mohrig & Kauschke & Broadley 2018, sp. n.

Bradysia parareflexa sp. n.

(Fig. 14 A–C)

Type locality: Australia, New South Wales, Rydalmere.

Holotype: Male, 11.ii.1977, light trap, leg. B.J. Loudon, ASCT 00053603 (ASCU).

Paratypes: 2 males, same data, ASCT00053600 (PWMP), ASCT00054902 (PABM); 1 male, 4.x.1978, Rydalmere, light trap, ASCT00053599 (PABM); 1 male, 7.iii.1977, ASCT000138716 (PWMP).

Description. Male. Head. Brown. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Antenna brown, 4th flagellomere with l/w index of 2.4, hairs sparse, erect and as long as the diameter of the basal node; neck very short, bicoloured. Palpus 3- segmented, basal segment with 1 bristle and a deepened sensory area. Thorax. Brown. Scutum with short hairs, some lateral bristles longer; scutellum with 4 marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1 = 3/4 R; R5 without ventral macrotrichia; C somewhat longer than 1/2 w; y somewhat longer than x, without macrotrichia; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, pale. Coxae and legs brownish; apex of fore tibia with a comb of bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibiae equal in size, longer than the diameter of the apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. Dark, with fine hairs. Hypopygium basally without a lobe or dense hairs, gonocoxites on the outside and on the inner side with strikingly shaggy hairs (hairs directed out and downwards), at the inner ventral margin with rather short sparse hairs; gonostylus short, the outside strongly arched, with short and shaggy hairs, with short apical tooth and 5–6 shorter spines. Tegmen wide, rounded apically, with a small field of fine teeth. Aedeagus rather long. Body length: 2.2 mm.

Comments. The species belongs to the B. pallipes group near to the species B. reflexa Tuomikoski and B. xenoreflexa Mohrig & Menzel. All three species are characterized by the shaggy arranged hairs on the gonocoxites and the gonostylus. B. parareflexa differs from both species by having a shorter gonostylus of a different shape, shorter hairs at the ventral inner side of gonocoxites and longer hairs on the flagellomeres.

Distribution. Australia: New South Wales.