Megaselia hardingorum, 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 : 460

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.6093877

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD8784-FFB0-FFEF-C5FA-FBE5FDCDF947

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Plazi

scientific name

Megaselia hardingorum
status

sp. nov.

Megaselia hardingorum View in CoL new species (Figs. 11, 43, 73, 103)

Diagnosis. Male. In the group VIII key of Borgmeier (1966), M. hardingorum keys to couplet 11 where it differs from both M. globipyga Borgmeier and M. brevicostalis Wood by having long costal setae (0.13–0.16 mm) and 5 alular setae.

Description. See Table 4.

Distribution. Los Angeles, California ( USA).

Etymology. Named in honor of the Harding family, hosts of BioSCAN site 14.

Biology. Unknown.

Holotype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Highland Park, 1–8.III.2014, Brejcha, Malaise trap ( LACM 329781).

Paratypes. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Glendale, 1–8.III.2014, Hoffman, Malaise trap ( LACM 329782). ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Mount Washington, 28.XII.2013 – 4.I.2014, Donahue, Malaise trap ( LACM 329783). ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Mount Washington, 1–8.III.2014, Donahue, Malaise trap ( CUMZ). ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Highland Park, 1–8.III.2014, Franco, Malaise trap ( CUMZ).

Additional Material Examined. USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles: Silverlake, Elysian Park, Eagle Rock, 3 ♂, 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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