Megaselia mahabadensis, Khameneh & Khaghaninia & Disney & Maleki-Ravasan, 2019

Khameneh, Roya Namaki, Khaghaninia, Samad, Disney, R. Henry L. & Maleki-Ravasan, Naseh, 2019, Twenty one new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4711 (1), pp. 1-50 : 34-35

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:604227AA-58EB-408C-8794-6E30192C3F74

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5933518

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B056F818-FFBE-256A-FF1B-AD4BAEB1CD05

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Plazi

scientific name

Megaselia mahabadensis
status

sp. nov.

Megaselia mahabadensis View in CoL n. sp.

( Figs 205–218 View FIGURES 205–212 View FIGURES 213–218 )

Material examined. Holotype male, West Azerbaijan province, Mahabad city, Ghalate-shah region, 36°46.01’N, 45°22.37’E, 1605 m, grassland, 19.VI.2017, S. Khaghaninia (54, CUMZ—13-97). GoogleMaps

Description. Male. Whole fly as Fig. 205 View FIGURES 205–212 . Frons as Fig. 206 View FIGURES 205–212 , with very fine microtrichia ( Fig. 207 View FIGURES 205–212 ). Cheek with 5 bristles and jowl with 2 that are longer and more robust. Postpedicels, which lack SPS vesicles, palps and proboscis as Fig. 208 View FIGURES 205–212 , the palps having many small pits ( Fig. 209 View FIGURES 205–212 ).Thorax brown, with 3 notopleural bristles and no cleft in front of these. Mesopleuron with many hairs and a single short bristle ( Fig. 210 View FIGURES 205–212 ). Scutellum with an anterior pair of small hairs and a posterior pair of bristles. Abdominal tergites brown with relatively few small hairs except for longer more robust hairs laterally on T6 ( Fig. 211 View FIGURES 205–212 ). Venter dark gray, and with hairs on segments 3–6, but those on 3–5 a small and few in number. Hypopygium as Figs 211–213 View FIGURES 205–212 View FIGURES 213–218 ), the hypandrial lobes lacking. Legs brown. Fore tarsus with posterodorsal hair palisades on segments 1–4 with 5 clearly longer than 4 ( Fig. 214 View FIGURES 213–218 ) and basitarsurs vetrally with rows of small spinules ( Fig. 215 View FIGURES 213–218 ). Dorsal hair palisade of mid tibia extends about 0.54 times its length. Hairs below basal half of hind femur subequal to or slightly longer than those of anteroventral row of outer half ( Fig. 216 View FIGURES 213–218 ). Hind tibia with 9–10 moderately differentiated posterodorsal hairs, without anterodorsals, and spinules of apical combs simple. Wings ( Figs 217 & 218 View FIGURES 213–218 ) 1.5–1.6 mm long mm long. Costal index 0.42. Costal ratios 3.41: 1.59: 1. Costal cilia (of section 3) 0.09 mm long. Vein 3 hair lacking. 3 axillary bristles, the outermost being 0.09 mm long. Sc not reaching R1 and vein 7 obscure. Haltere brown.

Recognition. In the key to the Megaselia males of the British Isles ( Disney 1989) it runs to couplet 28. As the bristle on the mesopleuron is relatively short one could take either lead, but both take one on to couplet 60 and then onto couplet 91, where the hypopygium differs from either option. In Schmitz’s (1958) key to Abteilung III it runs to couplets 17 or 27, but the hypopygium differs from all the options. In the key of Schmitz & Delage (1974) to Abteilung V it runs to couplet 7 lead 1, where again the hypopygium rules this option.

Etymology. Named after Mahabad city.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Megaselia

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