Megaselia armstrongorum, Hartop, Emily A., Brown, Brian V. & Disney, R. Henry L., 2015

Hartop, Emily A., Brown, Brian V. & Disney, R. Henry L., 2015, Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA), Zootaxa 3941 (4), pp. 451-484 : 453-454

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0282A923-893A-45BC-941A-6CDECBE36618

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6093857

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD8784-FFBB-FFE5-C5FA-FA23FC77FA76

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Plazi

scientific name

Megaselia armstrongorum
status

sp. nov.

Megaselia armstrongorum View in CoL new species ( Figs. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 9 , 33 View FIGURES 33 – 42 , 63 View FIGURES 63 – 68 , 93 View FIGURES 93 – 108 )

Diagnosis. Male. The costa of this species can be 0.42–0.44 wing length, allowing specimens to key to either group VII or group VIII in the keys of Borgmeier (1966). It keys to couplet 38 in the group VII key but differs from the two species there, M. rotundula Borgmeier and M. piccola Borgmeier by having 3 notopleural bristles. It runs to M. polyporicola Borgmeier in the group VIII key, from which it differs most noticeably in wing characteristics. M. polyporicola has dark veins, whereas M. armstrongorum has especially light veins, so much so that they are difficult to photograph well. Additionally, in M. polyporicola costal segment two (C2) is twice the length of costal segment three (C3), but in M. armstrongorum the sections are subequal.

Description. See Table 2.

Distribution. Los Angeles, California ( USA).

Etymology. Named in honor of the Armstrong family, hosts of BioSCAN site 17.

Biology. Unkown.

Holotype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, 3–7.V.2014, Keller, Malaise Trap ( LACM 329753).

Paratype. 4 ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, 3–7.V.2014, Keller, Malaise Trap ( LACM 329754, LACM 329755, 2 CUMZ).

Additional Material Examined. USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles: Exposition Park, University Park, Los Feliz, Silverlake, Elysian Valley, Leimert Park, Koreatown, Mid-City, Glendale, Gardena, Hollywood, Larchmont, Carthay, Burbank, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, Pico-Union, Mid-Wilshire, Highland Park, Mount Washington, 1273 ♂, I–V.2014, Malaise traps ( LACM, MCZC, USNM).

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

CUMZ

Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Megaselia

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