Megaselia isaacmajorum, Hartop, Emily A., Brown, Brian V. & Disney, R. Henry L., 2015

Hartop, Emily A., Brown, Brian V. & Disney, R. Henry L., 2015, Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA), Zootaxa 3941 (4), pp. 451-484 : 464-465

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3941.4.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0282A923-893A-45BC-941A-6CDECBE36618
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6093891
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treatment provided by	Plazi (2016-04-19 00:52:09, last updated 2024-11-26 04:00:50)
scientific name	Megaselia isaacmajorum
status	sp. nov.

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Megaselia isaacmajorum View in CoL new species (Figs. 17, 49, 79, 110)

Diagnosis. Male. In the group IV key of Borgmeier (1964), M. isaacmajorum keys to couplet 15 where it can be easily eliminated from continuing in the key by its dark palpi, but lacks the single conspicuous bristle found on each side of the epandrium of M. alaskensis Malloch ( Fig. 79 View FIGURES 75 – 80 ).

Description. See Table 5.

Distribution. Los Angeles, California ( USA).

Etymology. Named in honor of the sons of the Koch family: Isaac, Miguel, Aaron and Jacob, hosts of BioSCAN site 6.

Biology. Unknown.

Holotype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Glendale, 1–8.III.2014, Hoffman, Malaise trap ( LACM 329799).

Paratypes. 2 ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Glendale, 1–8.III.2014, Hoffman, Malaise trap ( LACM 329800, CUMZ). 2 ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Glendale, 28.XII.2013 – 4.I.2014, Hoffman, Malaise trap ( LACM 329801, CUMZ).

Additional Material Examined. USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles: Los Feliz, Glendale, Mount Washington, 54 ♂, I–V.2014, Malaise traps ( LACM, MCZC, USNM).

LACM	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
CUMZ	Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History