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Cratyna (Pictosciara) vera Mohrig. A. Hypopygium 2004

Description

Cratyna (Pictosciara) vera Mohrig, 2004

(Fig. 10 A–C)

Literature: Mohrig (2004): 141–142, fig. 11 a–e.

Material: 1 male, 8.vii.2000, Australia, Queensland, surroundings of Cairns, Tablelands, Millaa Millaa Falls, wet tropics, leg. W. Mohrig; 1 male, 13.vi.1997, Mt Lewis, 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, 16°35´S, 145°16´E, wet tropics, leg. J. Seymour (PWMP; PABM).

Comments. Cratyna vera is the type species of the subgenus Pictosciara Mohrig, 2004, described from Papua New Guinea. It is characteriZed by a short 3-segmented palpus with a sensory pit on the basal segment, yellow gonocoxite, and dark brown gonostylus with a short apical tooth and 4 longer spines in the apical third.

Distribution. Australia, Queensland; Papua New Guinea.

Genus Epidapus HALIDAY, 1851

Type species: Epidapus venaticus Haliday, 1856 – Insecta Brit. Dipt. 3: 56; monotypy [= Tipula atomaria De Geer, 1778]. Literature: Tuomikoski (1960): 96–100; Mohrig & Jaschhof (1999): 29–36; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 299–339; Mohrig (2004): 150–160; Vilkamaa et al. (2014): 429–436.

Notes

Published as part of Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2017, Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of Queensland, Australia. Part I. Genera Chaetosciara Frey, Corynoptera Winnertz, Cratyna Winnertz, Epidapus Haliday, Keilbachia Mohrig, Lobosciara Steffan, Phytosciara Frey and Scatopsciara Edwards, pp. 451-481 in Zootaxa 4303 (4) on page 465, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/841442

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
PWMP, PABM
Event date
1997-06-13 , 2000-07-08
Verbatim event date
1997-06-13 , 2000-07-08
Scientific name authorship
Mohrig. A. Hypopygium
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sciaridae
Genus
Cratyna
Species
vera
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cratyna (Pictosciara) vera Hypopygium, 2004 sec. Mohrig, Kauschke & Broadley, 2017