Megaselia bradyi, 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 : 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.6093859
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD8784-FFBA-FFE5-C5FA-FA59FF4EF85B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Megaselia bradyi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Megaselia bradyi View in CoL new species ( Figs. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 9 , 34 View FIGURES 33 – 42 , 64 View FIGURES 63 – 68 , 94 View FIGURES 93 – 108 )

Diagnosis. Male. In the group IV key of Borgmeier (1964), M. bradyi keys to couplet 17 but differs from both M. dificilis Malloch or M. cribella Borgmeier by having a characteristic basal fringe of 12+ robust, curved setae on the hind femur (F3), which those species lack.

Description. See Table 2.

Distribution. Los Angeles, California ( USA).

Etymology. Named in honor of Brady Louie, the youngest host of BioSCAN site 20.

Biology. Unknown.

Holotype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Elysian Park, 22.II.2014 – 1.III.2014, Harding, Malaise Trap ( LACM 329756).

Paratype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Los Feliz, 1–7.II.2014, Louie, Malaise trap ( LACM 329757).