Megaselia studentorum 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

Megaselia studentorum Hartop, Brown, & Disney 2016 sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322039 ; recordedBy: Johnson; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: studentorum; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Echo Park ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 3-10.VI.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT

Description

See description Table 2 and Fig. 2a, Fig. 3j, Fig. 5d.

Diagnosis

Male. In the group VII key of Borgmeier (1966), M. studentorum keys to M. inornata Malloch at couplet 41. Megaselia studentorum differs from both M. inornata and most others species by its costal ratio of 2.40: 1.85: 1; costal segment 2 is longer relative to the other two segments than is usual. Megaselia inornata , for instance, has a ratio of 2.78: 1.44: 1 (25: 13: 9), this is more typical in Megaselia .

Etymology

Named in honor of the many USC work study students who continue to do countless hours of work on every aspect of the BioSCAN project. Without them, BioSCAN would not be possible.

Distribution

Los Angeles, California (USA).

Biology

Unknown.