The status and phylogeny of Moehnia Pritchard, 1960 (Diptera: Sciaridae).

Abstract

The genus Moehnia includes the Nearctic type-species M. erema Pritchard (California, Ontario), of which only the female was previously known, and the new Oriental species M. quantula spec. nov. (Borneo, Sumatra). The phylogenetic relationship of Moehnia is: Pseudoepidapus Mohrig + [Moehnia Pritchard + (Caenosciara Lengersdorf + Epidapus Haliday)]. The type-species of the two currently recognised subgenera of Epidapus, Epidapus s. str. and Vimmeria Kratochvil, form a monophyletic group.

Nomenclatural Acts

quantula Hippa, Menzel & Jaschhof, 1997 (Moehnia), spec. n.