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Australian Sciaridae
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Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 15-02-2015 05:19
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
I believe this is Sciaridae- female. Can anyone suggest a genus? Light trap. Townsville, Queensland. Graeme Cocks attached the following image: [75.24Kb] Edited by Graeme Cocks on 18-02-2015 19:34 |
kaiheller |
Posted on 21-02-2015 20:53
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Member Location: Heikendorf, Germany Posts: 10 Joined: 07.02.05 |
Hi, might be this one: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_BarcodeCluster?clusteruri=BOLD:AAV1319 The species most probably belongs to the genus Ctenosciara, which probably comprises several hundred species in Australia. Cheers, Kai |
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Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 22-02-2015 20:36
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks Kai |
Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 22-02-2015 20:42
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
I don't think Ctenosciara is listed for Australia. Yet that BOLD reference you supplied obviously has some located on the East Coast.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 22-02-2015 20:45 |
John Carr |
Posted on 22-02-2015 22:44
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Member Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 9847 Joined: 22.10.10 |
Sciaridae have been reorganized in the past 15 years. If a regional revision has not been published there is no way to correlate old records with current genera. Outside of Europe, records are incomplete. Some of the common North American species are undescribed or unrecorded, despite a revision within the past decade. In Central America probably 90% of the species are undescribed. |
Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 22-02-2015 23:43
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks John. |
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