Megaselia artborkenti, Brown, 2022

Brown, Brian V., 2022, Some remarkably common, but undescribed, Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from northwestern Costa Rica, Zootaxa 5120 (3), pp. 373-390 : 387

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:91CAB04C-2E53-4B4B-A718-EDF59615BB4B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6389525

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1539EB06-E15B-1A4D-A0CD-F9DA13002F5E

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scientific name

Megaselia artborkenti
status

sp. nov.

Megaselia artborkenti View in CoL new species

Figures 9a–c View FIGURES 6–9 , 18 View FIGURES 16–18 .

Holotype. Male. BIOUG05406 View Materials -G08, COSTA RICA: Guanacaste: Bosque San Emilio , 10.8438°N, 85.6138°W, 300 m, 16.vii.2012, D. Janzen, Malaise trap [ LACM ENT 366307 About LACM ] ( MNCR). GoogleMaps

Paratypes: See Supplementary Table 1.

Gallery Image

FIGURES 6–9. Megaselia photographs. a, male habitus, left side; b, female abdomen, dorsal; c, male left wing.; 6, Megaselia nealevenhuisi n. sp.; 7, Megaselia stevemarshalli n. sp.; 8, Megaselia manuelzumbadoi n. sp.; 9, Megaselia artborkenti n. sp.

Gallery Image

FIGURES 16–18. Male terminalia of Megaselia species, left lateral. 16, Megaselia stevemarshalli n. sp.; 17, Megaselia manuelzumbado n. sp.; 18, Megaselia artborkenti n. sp., 20. Abbreviations: cl – cercus loop; cl lb – clear lobe.

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

MNCR

Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Megaselia