Megaselia necalbiclava Disney & Karimzadeh, 2024

Disney, R. Henry L., Karimzadeh, Javad, Besharatnejad, Mohammad-Hassan, Gilasian, Ebrahim & Sheikhigarjan, Aziz, 2024, Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) reared from Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Iran, Zootaxa 5448 (2), pp. 292-300 : 295

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 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Megaselia

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