Megaselia carthayensis, 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 : 456

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.6093863

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD8784-FFBC-FFE3-C5FA-FD51FB06FB1B

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Plazi

scientific name

Megaselia carthayensis
status

sp. nov.

Megaselia carthayensis View in CoL , new species ( Figs. 4 View FIGURES 1 – 9 , 36 View FIGURES 33 – 42 , 66 View FIGURES 63 – 68 , 96 View FIGURES 93 – 108 )

Diagnosis: Male. In the group VIII key of Borgmeier (1966), M. carthayensis keys to M. polyporicola Borgmeier. In contrast to the epandrium with longish hairs on both sides and dark wing veins of M. polyporicola , M. carthayensis has an epandrium with short hairs only ( Fig. 66 View FIGURES 63 – 68 ), and very light wing veins ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 33 – 42 ).

Description. See Table 2.

Distribution. Los Angeles, California ( USA).

Etymology. Named in honor of Carthay Elementary School, site of BioSCAN site 19.

Biology. Unkown.

Holotype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Glendale, 31.V.2014 – 7.VI.2014, Armstrong, Malaise Trap ( LACM 329761)

Paratypes. 4 ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Los Feliz, 31.V.2014 – 7.VI.2014, Koch, Malaise Trap ( LACM 329762, LACM 329763, 2 CUMZ)

Additional Material Examined. USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles: Los Feliz, Larchmont, Carthay, Highland Park, Mount Washington, 11 ♂, II–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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