Megaselia brejchaorum, 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.6093861
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD8784-FFBC-FFE3-C5FA-FF10FA23FD7E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Megaselia brejchaorum
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Megaselia brejchaorum View in CoL new species ( Figs. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 9 , 35 View FIGURES 33 – 42 , 65 View FIGURES 63 – 68 , 95 View FIGURES 93 – 108 )

Diagnosis. Male. In the group V key of Borgmeier (1964), M. brejchaorum keys to couplet 4 where it differs from both M. pressicauda Borgmeier and M. divergens Malloch in details of the genitalia ( Fig. 65 View FIGURES 63 – 68 ). The epandrium of M. brejchaorum lacks the foveolate impression of M. pressicauda and has long, robust bristles in contrast to the short hairs found on M. divergens .

Description. See Table 2.

Distribution. Los Angeles, California ( USA).

Etymology. Named in honor of the Brejcha family, hosts of BioSCAN site 29.

Biology. Unknown.

Holotype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Highland Park, 1–8.II.2014, Brejcha, Malaise trap ( LACM 329758).

Paratypes. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, 1–8.III.2014, Hogue, Malaise trap ( LACM 329759). ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, 1–8.II.2014, Hogue, Malaise trap ( LACM 329760).