The Types of Lygistorrhinidae and Mycetophilidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) in the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

ABSTRACT An annotated list of the type specimens of Lygistorrhinidae and Mycetophilidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa is provided. Information on 54 type specimens, three lygistorrhinids and 51 mycetophilids, with details of labels and actual preservation of the specimens is furnished. Locality data are georeferenced and habitus images of type specimens are provided.


INTRODUCTION
The Lygistorrhinidae (long-beaked fungus gnats) constitute a small family of Mycetophiliformia (sensu Amorim & Rindal 2007), which is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. It now contains eight extant genera and about 32 or 33 species (Vockeroth 2009;Pape et al. 2011). The placement of some genera from Cretaceous amber in Lygistorrhinidae is still debatable (Blagoderov & Grimaldi 2004;, but the monophyly of the family including only the Recent species has not been questioned (Matile 1997;Grimaldi & Blagoderov 2001;. The fungus gnat family Mycetophilidae s.s. is one of the largest and most diversified families of Bibionomorpha, which fossil record extends back to the Jurassic (Evenhuis 1994;Amorim & Silva 2002). The family now contains approximately 180 extant genera and almost 4500 species world-wide (Pape et al. 2011). Although the monophyly of the Mycetophilidae is a consensus (Søli 1997;Rindal et al. 2009), a robust phylogeny of this family is still to be provided.
The present paper provides a list of type specimens of Lygistorrhinidae and My cetophilidae housed in the collection of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (NMSA, Pieterma ritzburg, South Africa), following a recommendation of the International Code of Zoo logical Nomenclature (ICZN 1999: 72F.4).

MATERIAL AND METHODS
The list given below is arranged in the alphabetical order of genus and species. Label data are given in double quotation marks, with placement hierarchy (from top to bot tom) of the label on the pin or slide being noted in round brackets. In case of handwriting on labels, the handwritten text is reproduced in italics; printed text on labels is reproduced in regular font. For the sake of clarity, additions to some of the original in formation of labels, such as abbreviated collecting dates and incomplete locali ties, are given in square brackets. All specimen localities were georeferenced following the point-radius method (Wieczorek et al. 2004;Chapman & Wieczorek 2006) (3) printed on red paper: "HOLOTYPE"; (4) printed with handwriting on white paper: "Dziedzickia | stuckenbergorum | n.sp. ♂ holotype | L. Matile det. 1991"; (5) printed on white paper: "NMSA-Dip. 11280".
Preservation: Pinned exemplar, right III and abdomen glued on card; missing parts: right I and legs III. Distribution: South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga).
Paradoxa paradoxa Jaschhof, 2006 Fig. 13 minalia separate on the slide; missing parts: right leg III. (4) printed on white paper: "NMSA-Dip. 66422"; on one slide, with left legs, left wing and terminalia separate on the slide; missing parts: none. (4) printed on white paper: "NMSA-Dip. 66423"; on one slide, with right legs, right wing, head and terminalia separate on the slide; missing parts: none. (4) printed on white paper: "NMSA-Dip. 66424"; on one slide, with abdomen, head, terminalia and both wings separate on the slide; missing parts: distal part of right wing missing. Distribution: South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).