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

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322010 ; recordedBy: Harding; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: wongae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Elysian Park ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 30.VIII-6.IX.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322011 ; recordedBy: Keller; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: wongae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Eagle Rock ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 27.IX-4.X.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 322012 ; recordedBy: Brejcha; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: wongae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Highland Park ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 25.X-8.XI.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Brejcha; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: wongae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Highland Park ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 25.X-8.XI.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: CUMZ Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 32; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Phoridae; genus: Megaselia; specificEpithet: wongae; scientificNameAuthorship: Hartop, Brown, & Disney; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: California; municipality: Los Angeles; locality: Gardena, Highland Park, Mount Washington, Glendale, Eagle Rock, Atwater Village, Los Feliz, Elysian Park, Silver Lake ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: I-XII.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: LACM; collectionCode: ENT

Description

See description Table 2 and Fig. 2c, Fig. 3l, Fig. 5f.

Diagnosis

Male. In the group VIII key of Borgmeier (1966), M. wongae keys to M. bovista [now considered to be M. agarici (Lintner, 1895)], from which it can easily be differentiated by the absence of M. agarici 's characteristic pale protrusion from the posterior of the epandrium. This species is similar to M. lombardorum Hartop et al. (2015), also from the L.A. region, but differs in having much longer setae on T6, and hypandrial lobes that appeared cupped ( Hartop et al. 2015: fig 81 versus Fig. 5f).

Etymology

Named in honor of BioSCAN volunteer Maria Wong whose help identifying Megaselia for BioSCAN Phase I contributed to the discovery of these twelve new species.

Distribution

Los Angeles, California (USA).

Biology

Unknown.