Megaselia armstrongorum, Hartop, Emily A., Brown, Brian V. & Disney, R. Henry L., 2015
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.4.1 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0282A923-893A-45BC-941A-6CDECBE36618 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6093857 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD8784-FFBB-FFE5-C5FA-FA23FC77FA76 |
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treatment provided by |
Plazi |
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scientific name |
Megaselia armstrongorum |
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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).
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