Revision of black fungus gnat species (Diptera, Sciaridae) described from the Hawaiian Islands by D.E. Hardy and W.A. Steffan, and a contribution to the knowledge of the sciarid fauna of the Galápagos Islands

Abstract

On the Hawaiian Islands 22 sciarid species were detected, belonging to the following ten genera: Austrosciara Schmitz & Mjöberg, Bradysia Winnertz, Corynoptera Winnertz, Cratyna Winnertz, Epidapus Haliday, Hyperlasion Schmitz, Lycoriella Frey, Phytosciara Frey, Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig and Scatopsciara Edwards. The revision resulted in new combinations for the following five species: Austrosciara hawaiiensis (Hardy) comb. n., Corynoptera prominens (Hardy) comb. n., Cratyna adrostylata (Hardy) comb. n., Cr. longicosta (Hardy) comb. n., and Scatopsciara hoyti (Hardy) comb. n. Eight species were declared as new synonyms: Bradysia bishopi Steffan, 1973 = B. centidens Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012 syn. n.; B. crassicornis (Skuse, 1890) = B. molokaiensis (Grimshaw, 1901) syn. n. and = B. aspercera Mohrig, 2016 syn. n.; B. radicum (Brunetti, 1912) = B. spatitergum (Hardy, 1956) syn. n.; Corynoptera prominens (Hardy, 1956) = C. gladiota Mohrig, 2004 syn. n.; Cosmosciara hartii (Johannsen, 1912) = Plastosciara (Plastosciara) latipons Hardy, 1956 syn. n.; Hyperlasion wasmanni (Schmitz, 1918) = Scythropochroa magnisensoria Hardy, 1956 syn. n.; and Scatopsciara hoyti (Hardy, 1956) = Sc. spiculata Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012 syn. n. These four species are new reports for Hawai‘i, three of them are new to science: Epidapus pallidus (Séguy), Pseudolycoriella nigrofemoralis Mohrig, Kauschke & Broadley sp. n., Scatopsciara hardyi Mohrig, Kauschke & Broadley sp. n. and Sc. steffani Mohrig, Kauschke & Broadley sp. n. A lectotype was designated for Bradysia radicum (Brunetti) in order to fix the name. All new and revised species are figured. The species Bradysia bishopi Steffan, 1973, B. ocellaris (Comstock, 1882), B. radicum (Brunetti, 1912), Cosmosciara hartii (Johannsen, 1912), Pseudolycoriella planiforceps (Steffan, 1971) and Scatopsciara steffani Mohrig, Kauschke & Broadley sp. n. are reported from the Galápagos Islands.

Characterization of the mitochondrial genomes ofBradysia hygida,Phytosciara flavipesandTrichosia splendens(Diptera: Sciaridae) and novel insights on the control region of sciarid mitogenomes

“…Considering the feeding habits of B. hygida , we suggest that its classification in the Pseudolycoriella group is probably correct. Bradysia is a species rich genus that has been acknowledged as one of the most morphologically controversial groups within the Sciaridae family (Mohrig et al, 2013; Mohrig et al, 2019). Recent studies have shown that DNA barcoding is a useful tool to identify both immature forms and adults of the Bradysia genus (Arimoto et al, 2018; Shin et al, 2015).…”

New record of black fungus gnat (Diptera: Sciaroidea, Sciaridae) from Iran, with a first record for the fauna of the Middle East

“…Diagnoses of the species are generally based on the keys and descriptions in Hippa et al (2010), Menzel and Mohrig (2000), and Mohrig et al (2013). The distribution data of the species discussed were compiled from the following publications: Arimoto et al (2018), Babytskiy et al (2019), Broadley et al (2018), Ebejer and Gatt (2021), El Ouazzani et al (2019), Heidari Latibari et al (2016a, Heller and Menzel (2017), Hippa et al (2010), Katumanyane et al (2020), Menzel & Elsayed (2013), Menzel and Satayeva (2010), Menzel and Smith (2009), Menzel and Vilkamaa (2021), Menzel et al (2003Menzel et al ( , 2020aMenzel et al ( , 2020b, Mohrig et al (2001Mohrig et al ( , 2013Mohrig et al ( , 2019, Shin et al (2015), Sohier et al (2012), Steffan (1969Steffan ( , 1974, Sueyoshi and Yoshimatsu (2019), Ye et al (2017).…”

Pseudolycoriella hygida (Sauaia and Alves)—An Overview of a Model Organism in Genetics, with New Aspects in Morphology and Systematics

“…The identification of species was carried out according to the keys, descriptions, and figures by several authors [1,[3][4][5]7,25,[61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80]. The morphological terminology follows [7,70,81], with some minor adaptations to abbreviations (see Section 2.5, 'Morphological abbreviations').…”