Bradysia luctifica ( Skuse, 1888 )

Bradysia luctifica ( Skuse, 1888) View in CoL comb. n.

( Fig. 15 View FIGURE 15 A‒C)

Sciara luctifica Skuse, 1888 View in CoL [ Skuse (1888): 680 ‒681].

Type locality. Australia. S A., Gawler.

Lectotype (here designated): Male. Slide bears original label data verbatim ‘ S. luctifica / Ƌ (ink) TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse’ (print), ‘ S. Aust. ’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015. ( ANIC; Slide No. 030-1) . Paralectotype. Male, same data (without hypopygium) ( ANIC; Slide No. 030-2). Remarks. Original description states “ Hab.—Gawler, South Australia.”

Preservation. Flagellomeres missing, thorax damaged, hypopygium and wing in good condition.

= Bradysia planistylata Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012 syn. n. [ Vilkamaa et al. (2012c): 38 ‒39, fig. 10 A‒D; Mohrig

( 2016): 28, fig. 32 a‒c; plate III, fig. 32].

Type locality. New Caledonia.

Holotype: Bradysia planistylata Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012 , male.

Additional description. Male. Head. Brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Antenna lost; palpus 3-segmented, basal segment with sensory pit and 4‒5 bristles. Thorax. Brown, scutum with a few longer prescutellar and lateral bristles; postpronotum bare. Wings brownish; R1 = 3/4 R; R5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; C = 2/3 w; y = x, without macrotrichia; posterior veins distinct, without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brownish. Legs brownish; fore tibia with a comb of somewhat wavy brown bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, longer than the width of tibia apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. Brown, with rather short hairs. Hypopygium brown, with broad open ventral base, strongly contoured, without lobe or patch of bristles; gonocoxite with short hairs on the inner ventral membrane, the ventral inner margin with rather long bristles; gonostylus elongate, without apical tooth, flattened on the inner side and with shovel-like apex, densely covered with short spine-like bristles; tegmen apically rounded, with large area of teeth and a long ventral parameral apodeme; aedeagus rather long. Body length: approximately 4.0 mm.

Comments. This species is characterized by the flattened inner side of the gonostylus with a flat shovel-like apex, covered densely with short spine-like bristles. It is identical to B. planistylata from New Caledonia in all details. It is reported from Papua New Guinea as well (Mohrig 2016).

Distribution. Australia ( South Australia), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea.