Bradysia unica ( Skuse, 1888 )

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

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Sciara unica Skuse, 1888 View in CoL [ Skuse (1888): 708 ‒709].

Type locality. Australia, New South Wales, Gosford.

Holotype: Male. Original label data verbatim ‘ Sciara unica / Ƌ TYPE./ F. A. A. Skuse’ (print), ‘Gosford./ S.’ (ink). Mounted in Canada balsam Dec. 2015. ( ANIC; Slide No. 049).

Remarks. Original description states “ Hab.—Gosford (Skuse). February.”

Preservation. All details in good condition.

Additional description. Male. Head. Eye bridge three facets wide; antenna brown, 4th flagellomere with l/w index of 2.5, with dense curved hairs, surface slightly rough; palpus 3-segmented, rather long, basal segment without deepened sensory area, with 2‒3 bristles. Thorax. Brown, with three dark stripes on scutum; scutum with fine pale hairs; scutellum with 2 longer marginal bristles; postpronotum bare. Wing pale; R1 = 2/3 R; R5 with dorsal macrotrichia only; y = x, without macrotrichia; posterior veins without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brownish. Legs long and thin, yellowish-brown; fore tibia with a small comb of bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibia equal in size, as long as the width of apex of tibia; claws finely toothed. Abdomen. Brownish, with short sparse brownish hairs. Hypopygium with a v-shaped ventral base, without lobe or patch of bristles; gonocoxite with rather short fine hairs on the inner ventral margin; gonostylus without apical tooth, with 5 short spines among dense hairs at the apex; tegmen strikingly long, apically rounded, with fine teeth and with strong ventral parameral apodeme. Body length: 2.8 mm.

Comments. This species is characterized by flagellomeres with dense curved hairs; scutum with three dark stripes and short fine hairs; yellowish legs with finely toothed claws; and an elongate gonostylus with 4‒5 short fine spines among spine-sized bristles at the apex. It could belong to the B. fungicola group.

Distribution. Australia ( New South Wales).