Sylvicola notatus

Sylvicola notatus, also known by the common name outhouse fly, is a species of wood gnat in the family Sylvicola. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy
The species was first described by Frederick Hutton in 1902, who named the species Rhyphus notatus.

Description
Hutton described the species as follows:

"Reddish-tawny, the flagellum of the antennas dark-brown. Thorax with five brown stripes, the middle one shorter than the lateral pair; scutellum and metanotum brown. Tips of the femora and tibiae brown. Halteres pale-yellowish. Wings pale brownish; the pterostigma and the tip, from the discal cell outwards, darkish-brown. A distinct round white spot in the submarginal cell, and another, touching it, in the first posterior cell. A brown spot in the anterior basal cell, and another on the chief cross-vein. Posterior cross-vein bordered with brown. Veins brown."

The species body is 6 millimetres long, with a wing length of 6 millimetres.

Distribution
The species is found widely across New Zealand.