Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Sciaridae
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 15-02-2015 05:19
#1
I believe this is Sciaridae- female. Can anyone suggest a genus? Light trap. Townsville, Queensland.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 18-02-2015 19:34
Posted by kaiheller on 21-02-2015 20:53
#2
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
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 22-02-2015 20:36
#3
Thanks Kai
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 22-02-2015 20:42
#4
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
Posted by John Carr on 22-02-2015 22:44
#5
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.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 22-02-2015 23:43
#6
Thanks John.