Megaselia brejchaorum, 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 : 456

Megaselia brejchaorum new species ( Figs. 3, 35, 65, 95)

Diagnosis. Male. In the group V key of Borgmeier (1964), M. brejchaorum keys to couplet 4 where it differs from both M. pressicauda Borgmeier and M. divergens Malloch in details of the genitalia ( Fig. 65). The epandrium of M. brejchaorum lacks the foveolate impression of M. pressicauda and has long, robust bristles in contrast to the short hairs found on M. divergens .

Description. See Table 2.

Distribution. Los Angeles, California ( USA).

Etymology. Named in honor of the Brejcha family, hosts of BioSCAN site 29.

Biology. Unknown.

Holotype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Highland Park, 1–8.II. 2014, Brejcha, Malaise trap ( LACM 329758).

Paratypes. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, 1–8.III. 2014, Hogue, Malaise trap ( LACM 329759). ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, 1–8.II. 2014, Hogue, Malaise trap ( LACM 329760).