identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
1E5CB66CFF94BC11FF76FAE5B6BFFF4C.text	1E5CB66CFF94BC11FF76FAE5B6BFFF4C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseudolycoriella skusei	<div><p>Pseudolycoriella skusei sp. nov. (Fig 1)</p><p>Material examined. Holotype, male. NORFOLK ISLAND: Norfolk Island National Park, near Selwyn Pine Road entrance (29°0ʹ53ʺS, 167°56ʹ47ʺE), collected 25.xii.2012 by L. Mound &amp; A. Wells from yellow pan trap set under Norfolk Island pine tree ( Araucaria heterophylla) as part of Norfolk Island Quarantine Survey (NI _053-11). The specimen will be lodged in the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia. Paratype, male. AUSTRALIA: collected 8.viii.1997 by J. Seymour from Malaise trap, Mt. Lewis, 37 km WSW of Port Douglas, Queensland (16°35ʹS, 145°16ʹE)(PWMP) .</p><p>Description. Male. Head: Dark brown, ovoid, mouth parts short, clypeus bulbous; eye bridge 3 – 4 facets wide; antenna rather long, with yellowish-brown scape and pedicel; flagellomeres blackish-brown; necks pale, with darker ends (bicoloured); 4th flagellomere with a l/w-index of 2.2, setae bristle-like and as long as half of the diameter of basal part. Palp long, three-segmented; basal segment with 3 – 4 bristles and without a deepened patch of sensillae; third segment longer than basal segment.</p><p>Thorax: Brown; scutum with short and fine pubescence and three darker stripes; scutellum without longer marginal setae; postpronotum bare; katepisternum with darker corner. Wing brownish, with distinct veins; R1 = 3/4 R; R5 with ventral macrotrichia in the distal third; C longer than 1/2 w; y longer than x, without macrotrichia; Cu-stem shorter than x; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere brown. Fore coxa yellowish-brown, mid and hind coxa brown; femora yellowish-brown, tibiae and tarsal segments darker brown; inner apex of fore tibia with an irregular row-like patch of bristles, not distinctly bordered; spurs of middle and hind tibia of same size, brownish and as long as the diameter of apex; claws toothed.</p><p>Abdomen: Brownish; tergal and sternal setae moderately short and sparse; Hypopygium dark brown, intergonocoxal space bare, inner ventral margin of gonocoxite sparsely haired, with longer setae in the apical half; gonostylus elongate, narrow, apically curved; with three distinct sub-apical dark spines of the same size and three longer whiplash hairs; the inner dorsal side with rather long setae. Tegmen pyramid-like, much higher than broad, membranous at the end; aedeagus long. Body length: 4.5 mm.</p><p>Remarks. This large species is characterized by a long and narrow gonostylus with three subequal, long apical spines and two longer whiplash hairs; claws strongly toothed; antennal flagellomeres robust and blackish-brown, with rather long bicoloured necks; three dark stripes on mesonotum and a long pyramid-like tegmen with a membranous apex. Two species from New Caledonia ( P. trispicata Vilkamaa, Hippa &amp; Mohrig and P. t e n ui s Vilkamaa, Hippa &amp; Mohrig) also have three subapical spines, but differ significantly in having a shorter tegmen, shorter flagellomeres, and fewer whiplash hairs. The paratype from Queensland differs in having a lesser contrast-rich body colour: the scape and pedicel are brownish as are the flagellomeres, all the coxae are dark brown and the legs are uniformly brownish.</p><p>Etymology. We dedicate this new species to Frederick Arthur Askew Skuse (1866 – 1896), an English-Australian entomologist who was a pioneering worker on the Australian Sciaridae .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E5CB66CFF94BC11FF76FAE5B6BFFF4C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Mohrig, Werner;Kauschke, Ellen;Broadley, Adam	Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen, Broadley, Adam (2016): Pseudolycoriella skusei sp. nov. (Diptera: Sciaridae), a new dark-winged fungus gnat from Norfolk Island and Australia. Zootaxa 4097 (1): 139-142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.11
