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

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322041 ; recordedBy: Brown; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: phyllissunae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Monrovia ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 30.I-6.II.2011; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322042 ; recordedBy: Brejcha; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: phyllissunae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Highland Park ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 1-8.II.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322043 ; recordedBy: Hogue; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: phyllissunae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Eagle Rock ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 1-8.III.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT

Description

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

Diagnosis

Male. In the group VIII key of Borgmeier (1966), M. phyllissunae keys to couplet 11 where it differs from M. globipyga Borgmeier by lacking the globose genitalia of that species (Fig. 3 in Hartop et al. 2016 versus Fig. 4f) and from M. brevicostalis Wood by having unequal supraantennals and lacking the notopleural cleft of that species.

Etymology

Named in honor of Phyllis Sun for her many contributions to phase I of the BioSCAN project.

Distribution

Los Angeles, California (USA).

Biology

Unknown.