Austrosciara infrequens ( Skuse, 1888 )

Austrosciara infrequens ( Skuse, 1888) View in CoL comb. n.

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Sciara infrequens Skuse, 1888 View in CoL [ Skuse (1888): 719 ‒720].

Type locality. Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Elizabeth Bay .

Holotype. Male. Original label data verbatim ‘ Sc. infrequens / Ƌ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse (print)’, ‘Sydney/ S’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015. ( ANIC; Slide No. 028).

Remarks. In the original description Skuse noted “ Hab.—Elizabeth Bay (Skuse). January.”

Preservation. Head missing, scutum damaged, other morphological details in good condition.

Additional description. Male. Head. Missing. Thorax. Brown, prescutellar and few lateral bristles strong and dark; scutellum with 4 longer marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1 = 2/3 R; R5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; y nearly = x, without macrotrichia; M-stem weak, without macrotrichia; M-fork weak, without macrotrichia, M-branches distally with macrotrichia and CuA1 with macrotrichia in the distal third. Haltere short, brownish. Legs yellowish; apex of fore tibia with a broad comb of hyaline bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, longer than width of apex of tibia; claws without teeth. Abdomen. With rather long, sparse brownish hairs. Hypopygium ventrally with a broad open base, without lobe or bristle patch; gonocoxites with short and sparse hairs on inner ventral margin; gonostylus with short apical tooth and 5‒6 slightly longer spines in the apical half (sometimes arranged in pairs), one smaller spine above the tooth; tegmen longer than wide; aedeagus short. Body length: 2.0 mm.

Comments. This species is characterized by macrotrichia on posterior wing veins (branches of M-fork and CuA1), yellowish legs with a broad comb of hyaline spines on the apex of fore tibia; elongated gonostylus with an apical tooth and longer spines within bristles of the same size in the apical half.

Distribution. Australia ( New South Wales).