Genus Eugnoriste

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

dark-winged fungus gnat - Eugnoriste - female

Montane nematoceran - Eugnoriste - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))

Infraorder Bibionomorpha (Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies)

Superfamily Sciaroidea (Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges)

Family Sciaridae (Dark-winged Fungus Gnats)

Genus Eugnoriste

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

E. planiforceps Steffan 1971 has been reassigned to the gen. Pseudolycoriella(1)

Explanation of Names

Eugnoriste Coquillett 1896

Numbers

2 spp. in our area: E. brevirostris Coquillett 1904 (prob. widespread in NA) & E. occidentalis Coquillett 1896 (across Canada & w. US)(1)

Identification

These sciarids have elongate proboscids

Range

widespread in NA, esp. in the west(1)

Remarks

Coquillett's description of E. brevirostris: "Eugnoriste brevirostris, n. sp. Black, the stems of the halteres yellow. Head narrow and elongated, about three times as long as wide, proboscis slightly longer than the head, slender, horny, over six times as long as wide. Wings grayish, apex of first vein a short distance before the forking of the fourth. Length 3.5 mm. Halfway House, Pike's Peak, Colorado, September. A female specimen collected by Prof. T.D.A. Cockerell. Type. No. 7944, U.S. National Museum."

Print References

Coquillett D.W. (1896) A new dipterous genus related to Gnoriste. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 3: 321-322.

Coquillett D.W. (1904) New North American Diptera. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 6: 166-192.

Steffan W.A. (1968) North American Sciaridae (Diptera). 1. A new species of Scatopsciara and lectotype designation of Eugnoriste occidentalis Coquillett. (redescription of E. occidentalis with illustrations) Online Full text

Steffan, W.A. 1971. North American Sciaridae, II. A new species of Eugnoriste from Texas (Diptera). Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 73: 54-57.

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) of North America Mohrig W., Heller K., Hippa H., Vilkamaa P., Menzel F. 2012. Studia dipterologica 19: 141–286.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 26 January, 2008 - 3:45pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 26 December, 2014 - 3:32am

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