Vol. 108, No. 2, March & April, 1997 151 A NEW NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS CLUZOBRA (DIPTERA: MYCETOPHILIDAE)! Edward I. Coher2 ABSTRACT: The first North American species of the principally Neotropical genus Cluzobra is described from a short series of males and females taken in Ohio. Twenty-nine species of the sciophiline genus Cluzobra have been described, all from the Neotropical Region. Matile (1996) described twenty new species and reviewed nine species described by Lane (1948, 1956, 1959, 1960) and Edwards (1934, 1940, 1941). Excluding two questionable records of females, nineteen species are known from a single country and ten from a single collection. Only 2 species, C. aitkeni and C. spinulifera are reported as being widely distributed, although C. binocellaris and C. lanei would also fall into this cat-egory if collections from Mexico for the former and Nicaragua for the latter are confirmed by capture of males. Except for C. lanei, the other three species have been collected virtually year-round. Cluzobra Edwards, 1940 Type species: Acnemia binocellaris Edwards, 1934 Edwards , 1940. Rev. Entomol. 1 1:463. Vockeroth, 1981. Agric. Canada, Monogr. No. 27:231,237. Matile, 1996. Ann. Soc. Entomol. France (N.S.) 32(l):3-57. Cluzobra has been characterized in great detail by Matile (1996). Briefly, these sciophiline flies are distinguished by wings with Sc2 absent, Sc ending in C, and Cu simple. Cluzobra antennulata Coher, NEW SPECIES Habitus: a moderately slim, orange-yellow fly. Male. Head (Fig. 1) with vertex and occiput light red-brown, vertex light between antennae: each ocellus about its diameter from the eye with an irregular row of short setae between them; frons yellowish, narrow, 5:2 and setose: clypeus yellowish, setose; palpus brown, length of apical seg-ment subequal to basal three segments; antenna (2+ 1 4) with scape and pedicel and first two flagel-lar segments cream-colored with base of darker distal segments narrowly infuscated giving antenna a ringed appearance; scajDC and pedicel with strong dorsal apical setae; ventral apical setae of pedicel short and stout. Thorax with mesonotum yellowish with brown acrostichal stripes from midway ' Received February 10, 1995. Accepted August 10, 1996. 2 Division of Natural Sciences, Southampton College, Southampton, N.Y. 1 1968. ENT. NEWS 108(2): 151-154, March & April, 1997
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