Megaselia hyplongiseta sp. nov.

(Figs 13–19)

Description. Male only.

As Fig. 13. Frons as Fig. 14, with dense but very fine microtrichia. SAs unequal with upper pair more robust (Fig. 14). Cheek with 3 bristles and jowl with two, of which one is longer and more robust. The postpedicels as Fig. 15 but brown (Fig. 13), without SPS vesicles. Palps (Fig. 15) yellow. Labrum and labella and latter without short spinules below. Thorax (Fig. 13) with two notopleural bristles and no cleft in front of these. Mesopleuron bare. Scutellum with an anterior pair of hairs and a posterior pair of bristles. Abdominal tergites (Fig. 13) with hairs longest at rear of T6 (Fig. 17). Venter pale (Fig. 13) with hairs on segments 5–6 only. Hypopygium as Figs 16–18, with a pale anal tube. Hairs on epandrium almost equal to T6 hairs. Cercus and proctiger hairs shorter than epandrium hairs. Lobes of hypandrium vestigial but with long hairs (Figs 16 & 18). Legs yellow apart from brown tips to hind femora (Fig. 13). Dorsal hair palisade of mid tibia extends about 0.6 times its length. Hairs below basal half of hind femur longer than those of anteroventral row of outer half (Fig. 19). Hind tibia with 10 differentiated, but not robust, posterodorsal hairs, without anterodorsals, and spinules of apical combs simple. Wings (Fig. 13) 1.3 mm long. Costal index 0.49 Costal ratios 4.0: 2.1: 1. Costal cilia (of section 3) 0.04 mm long. Hair at base of vein 3 only 0.02 mm long. With two axillary bristles, the outer being 0.04 mm long. Sc not reaching R1. Haltere (Fig. 13) brown.

Etymology. The name refers to long bristly hairs on the hypandrium.

Recognition. In the keys of Borgmeier (1967) for Group VII it runs to couplet 86, lead 1 to Megaselia grandantennata Beyer, which is distinguished by its enlarged postpedicels.

Material. Holotype, ♂, MALAYSIA: Selangor, Bangi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, rabbit carcass in luggage, 20.xii.2010 (UCZM, 41–48).