Taenogera brunnea sp. nov.

Holotype female, AUSTRALIA: QUEENSLAND: Gurgeena Plateau, 25°27’S 151°22’E, 22.viii–10.x.1998, G.B. Monteith, open forest, F.I.T. [flight interception trap] (ANIC 29 021586) (Type #: T.144008) (QMBA). Condition: good; left wing broken and mid legs missing.

Paratype, AUSTRALIA: QUEENSLAND: female, Nipping Gully, 25°40’S 151°26’E, 21.viii–9.x. 1998, G.B. Monteith, rainforest, F.I.T. [flight interception trap], 200 m (ANIC 29 021587) (QMBA).

Diagnosis. Frons with greyish patch of pubescence; anterior margin of wing infuscate; pleuron overlain with dense, grey pubescence; scutum with diffuse dorsocentral stripe of greyish pubescence; abdomen mostly brownish.

Description. Female: Body length: 10.0 mm.

Head. Frons slightly concave, wider than ocellar tubercle at narrowest point, glossy black with central patch of grey pubescence admixed with elongate, pale setae; face overlain with dense, silver pubescence; ocellar tubercle slightly raised, glossy black with short, pale setae; occiput convex, dark, overlain with dense, grey pubescence, sparse medially; multiple rows of pale, postocular setae; gena overlain with silver pubescence admixed with short, dark setae; mouthparts light brown, covered with dark and pale setae; antenna slightly shorter than head length, yellow-orange pubescent, orange setae on scape and pedicel; flagellum tapered, approximately equal to combined length of scape and pedicel.

Thorax. Scutum brown, darker medially, overlain with sparse, greyish pubescence, admixed with short, pale setae, pubescence denser medially as a stripe anteriorly; scutellum yellow, overlain with yellow pubescence; pleuron and coxae brown, overlain with dense, greyish pubescence; admixed with pale setae on proepisternum, katatergite and coxae; legs brownish-yellow with brown macrosetae, covered with sparse, short, black setae on femora; wing mostly hyaline, covered with minute orange microtrichia on most of wing area except intervenal area, basal medial cell and basal portions of discal and anal cells, distinct smoky infuscation of anterior margin wing, in area between cubital and posterior cubital veins and along cross-vein between basal medial and discal cells, venation dark; haltere brownish; scutal macrosetae orange, scutal chaetotaxy (pairs): np, 3–4; sa, 2; pa, 1; dc, 1; sc, 1.

Abdomen. Elongate, brown on most segments, sparsely covered with short, erect, pale setae, denser on posterior segments; tergite 2 with dark band anteriorly.

Female Genitalia. Not dissected.

Male. Unknown.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from Medieval Latin: brunneus, brown; referring to the brownish body colour.

Comments. Taenogera brunnea sp. nov. is known from two female specimens collected in central Queensland and shares a similar wing pattern to T. luteola sp. nov. The brownish body colouration is distinctive for this species.