Megaselia nealevenhuisi, 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 : 382

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.6389517

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1539EB06-E15C-1A4A-A0CD-FB4513002D24

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scientific name

Megaselia nealevenhuisi
status

sp. nov.

Megaselia nealevenhuisi View in CoL new species

Figures 6a–c View FIGURES 6–9 , 15 View FIGURES 10–15 .

Holotype: Male. BIOUG07689 View Materials -H03, COSTA RICA: Guanacaste: Bosque San Emilio , 10.8438°N, 85.6138°W, 300 m, 23.iv.2012, D. Janzen, Malaise trap [ LACM ENT 366336 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.

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FIGURES 10–15. Male terminalia of Megaselia species, left lateral. 10, Megaselia normwoodleyi n. sp.; 11, Megaselia montywoodi n. sp.; 12, Megaselia wendyporrasae n. sp.; 13, Megaselia torbjornekremi n. sp., 14, Megaselia thomaspapei n. sp.; 15, Megaselia nealevenhuisi n. sp.

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