Megaselia gonzalezorum Hartop, Brown, & Disney 2016

Hartop, Emily A., Brown, Brian V. & Disney, R. Henry L., 2016, Flies from L. A., The Sequel: A further twelve new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) from the BioSCAN Project in Los Angeles (California, USA), Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 7756-7756 : 7756

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scientific name

Megaselia gonzalezorum Hartop, Brown, & Disney 2016
status

sp. n.

Megaselia gonzalezorum Hartop, Brown, & Disney 2016   ZBK sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322019 ; recordedBy: Oxborough; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: gonzalezorum; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Mid-City ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 1-8.XI.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322020 ; recordedBy: Keller; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: gonzalezorum; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Eagle Rock ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 1-8.II.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322073 ; recordedBy: Donahue; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: gonzalezorum; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Mount Washington ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 1-8.III.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: specimen badly damaged; recordedBy: Marquez; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: gonzalezorum; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Pico-Union ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: XI.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT

Description

See description Table 1 and Fig. 1c, Fig. 3c, Fig. 4c.

Diagnosis

Male. In the group VIII key of Borgmeier (1966), M. gonzalezorum keys to couplet nine, where its costal index of 0.35-0.36 differentiates it from either the very short (0.33) costal index of M. pygmaeoides [now considered to be M. berndseni (Schmitz 1919)] or the longer costal index (0.38-0.43) for continuing in the key. It also differs from M. berndseni in details of the genitalia (Fig. 4c), and if taken further in the key (by assuming that with more specimens the costal index might sometimes reach 0.38), details of the genitalia including the "nose-like" shape of the epandrium, would quickly differentiate it from species listed further down.

Etymology

Named by BioSCAN employee Lisa Gonzalez in honor of her family; parents Armando and Aida Gonzalez, and sister Rita Gonzalez.

Distribution

Los Angeles, California (USA).

Biology

Unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Megaselia