Megaselia losangelensis Hartop, Brown, & Disney 2016
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7756 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3AF4E16D-C363-4E7E-C229-2010E9D9775F |
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Megaselia losangelensis Hartop, Brown, & Disney 2016 |
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Megaselia losangelensis Hartop, Brown, & Disney 2016 ZBK sp. n.
Materials
Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322027 ; recordedBy: Hogg; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: losangelensis; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Silver Lake ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 26.IV-10.V.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322028 ; recordedBy: Armstrong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: losangelensis; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Glendale ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 28.VI-5.VII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322029 ; recordedBy: Keller; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: losangelensis; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Eagle Rock ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 2-19.VIII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Dahl; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: losangelensis; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Carthay ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 29.VII-5.VIII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: CUMZ Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Higgins; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: losangelensis; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: Oregon; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Atwater Village ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 26.XI-10.XII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: CUMZ
Description
See description Table 1 and Fig. 2e, Fig. 3e, Fig. 4e.
Diagnosis
Male. In the group VIII key of Borgmeier (1966), M. losangelensis keys to couplet 10 where it fails the key by having costal division one greater than two-times, but not as long as three times, costal division two. Assuming a margin of error, if one continues to couplet 11 M. losangelensis differs from M. globipyga by having a cleft, and from M. brevicostalis by having a small cleft (Fig. 2e) as opposed to the large cleft on M. brevicostalis .
Etymology
Named by BioSCAN Phase I Co-Principal Investigator Regina Wetzer in honor of our "City of Angels", the place that made BioSCAN possible.
Distribution
Los Angeles, California (USA).
Biology
Unknown.
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