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

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322024 ; recordedBy: Hogg; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: friedrichae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Silver Lake ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 28.VI-5.VII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322025, 322026 ; recordedBy: Hogg; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: friedrichae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Silver Lake ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 2-9.VIII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Hogg; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: friedrichae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Silver Lake ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 28.VI-5.VII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: CUMZ Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Creason; individualCount: 4; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: friedrichae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Glassell Park ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: V-VIII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT

Description

See description Table 1 and Fig. 1b, Fig. 2d, Fig. 3b, Fig. 4b.

Diagnosis

Male. In the group VIII key of Borgmeier (1966), M. friedrichae keys to couplet 9 where it differs from M. berndseni by the presence of a notopleural cleft and cannot be taken further in the key due to its short costal index (0.34-0.35). If one assumes a margin of error and takes M. friedrichae further in the key despite the short costal index, at couplet 11 it differs from M. globipyga by having a notopleural cleft and from M. brevicostalis by having a very small notopleural cleft (Fig. 2d) versus the large cleft on M. brevicostalis .

Etymology

Named by BioSCAN Phase I Project Manager Dean Pentcheff in honor of Kristin Friedrich whose effective work on behalf of this project brought a wide audience into an appreciation of the richness of urban biodiversity.

Distribution

Los Angeles, California (USA).

Biology

Unknown.