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Issue: Vol. 5264 No. 3: 14 Apr. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.3.9
Page range: 418-428
Abstract views: 312
PDF downloaded: 167

A new species of Mycomya Rondani, 1856 (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) common to southeast Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand

Otago Museum; 419 Great King St.; Dunedin; NZ
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera; Wellington; NZ
California State Collection of Arthropods; California Department of Food & Agriculture; 3294 Meadowview Road; Sacramento; CA; 95832; USA
Diptera Australia adventive Mycetophilidae Mycomya new species New Zealand

Abstract

Mycomya quadrimaculata sp. nov. is described from specimens collected in southeast Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. A key and type photographs of known Australian and New Zealand Mycomya species are provided. The relative abundance, observed distribution, and morphological affinities of the new species suggests that it is adventive and a recent introduction to New Zealand. Wing characters indicate that the new species is most closely aligned with a subgroup of the Australian Mycomya fauna.

 

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