Megaselia necalbiclava Disney & Karimzadeh, 2024
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.2.9 |
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D9565967-E9EF-4345-BA7A-C876A0EB5CD6 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11231846 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EE378790-FFF5-9228-FF30-968FD57E8909 |
treatment provided by |
Plazi |
scientific name |
Megaselia necalbiclava Disney & Karimzadeh |
status |
sp. nov. |
Megaselia necalbiclava Disney & Karimzadeh sp. n.
( Figs 17–26 View FIGS 17–26 )
Diagnosis. In Disney (1989) ’s key to the males of the British species this runs to couplet 123, which leads to M. albiclava (Schmitz) from which it differs by having a long bristle on the epandrium and the left hypandrium being longer and curved upwards instead of downwards. There are no additions to this couplet or similar species from elsewhere.
Description. Male. Frons as Fig. 17 View FIGS 17–26 ; Fig. 18 View FIGS 17–26 , postpedicels, which lack SPS vesicles, palps and proboscis. Fig. 19 View FIGS 17–26 , side of thorax, the mesopleuron having dozen hairs and a bristle and there being 2 notopleural bristles. Scutellum with an anterior pair of small hairs and a posterior pair of bristles. Abdomen ( Fig. 20 View FIGS 17–26 ) with hairs on segments 3-6 of venter. Hypopygium as Figs 21 and 22 View FIGS 17–26 . The legs are yellowish. Front tarsus ( Fig. 23 View FIGS 17–26 ) with a near dorsal palisade on segments 1-5. Mid tibia and basitarsus as Fig. 24 View FIGS 17–26 and hind femur as Fig. 25 View FIGS 17–26 . Wing ( Fig. 26 View FIGS 17–26 ) 1.90 mm long. Costal index 0.59. Costal ratios 2.96/1.43/1. Sc free. Costal cilia 0.13 mm. Vein 3 hair 0.10. mm. Longest axillary bristle 0.11 mm. Halteres brown.
Material examined. Holotype: IRAN • 1 ♂; Esfahan province, Mobarakeh, Arazi ; 32.4036°N, 51.6097 E; alt. 1646 m a.s.l.; 14 Sep. 2022; J. Karimzadeh leg.; reared from larvae of Spodoptera exigua feeding on cauliflower; UCMZ, 26–97; deposited in UCMZ (Cambridge, UK). GoogleMaps
Etymology. Named after it not (nec) being M. albiclava .
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