Twenty one new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iran Author Khameneh, Roya Namaki Author Khaghaninia, Samad Author Disney, R. Henry L. Author Maleki-Ravasan, Naseh text Zootaxa 2019 2019-12-13 4711 1 1 50 journal article 24637 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.1 b37adfc9-f522-4496-beec-6fb0231e325b 1175-5326 3573366 604227AA-58EB-408C-8794-6E30192C3F74 Megaselia zarghanii n. sp. ( Figs 283–296 ) Material examined. Holotype male, West Azerbaijan province, Mahabad city, Ghalate-shah region , 36°46.01’N , 45°22.37’E , 1605 m , grassland, 19.VI.2017 , S. Khaghaninia (40, CUMZ—13-96) . Paratypes : 2 males , locality data as the holotype ( ICHMM ) . FIGURES 283–286. Megaselia zarghanii n. sp. male. 283, whole fly; 284, frons; 285, detail of frons; 286, left antenna, palp and proboscis. Scale bars 20 μm. Description. Male. Whole fly as Fig. 283 . Frons as Fig. 284 , with microtrichia restricted to edges ( Fig. 285 ). Cheek with 5 bristles and jowl with 2 that are longer and more robust. Postpedicels, which lack SPS vesicles, palps and proboscis as Fig. 286 , the labella with only a few short spinules below. Thorax brown. Two notopleural bristles, with no cleft in front of these, and mesopleuron with short hairs ( Fig. 287 ). Scutellum with 4 bristles and a pair of hairs ( Fig. 288 ). Abdominal tergites brown with numerous fine hairs, with are a little longer at rear of T6 ( Fig. 289 ). Venter brown, and with hairs on segments 3–6. Hypopygium as Figs 289–292 , the hypandrium having a left lobe only but the bristle each side longer than usual ( Figs 291 & 292 ). Legs brown. Fore tarsus with posterodorsal hair palisade on segments 1–4 and 5 clearly longer than 4 ( Fig. 293 ) and basitarsis with rows of small spinules ( Fig. 294 ). Dorsal hair palisade of mid tibia extends about 0.63 times its length. Hairs below basal half of hind femur longer than those of anteroventral row of outer half ( Fig. 295 ). Hind tibia with 13–15 moderately differentiated posterodorsal hairs, without anterodorsals, and spinules of apical combs simple. Wings ( Fig. 296 ) 1.69 mm long. Costal index 0.44. Costal ratios 3.82: x1.47: 1. Costal cilia (of section 3) 0.12 mm long. No vein 3 hair. 4 axillary bristles, the outermost being 0.13 mm long. Sc not reaching R1. Haltere brown. FIGURES 287–296. Megaselia zarghanii n. sp. male. 287, side of thorax; 288, scutellum; 289, left face of hypopygium; 290, left face of epandrium; 291, right face of epandium; 292, right face of hypandrium; 293, front tarsus; 294, front basitarsus; 295, hind femur; 296, wing. Recognition. In the key to the Megaselia males of the British Isles ( Disney 1989 ) it runs to couplet 72 lead 1 M. simulans (Wood), but the brown legs and haltere rule out this species. In the key of Schmitz (1956) to Abteilung I it runs couplets 14 or 18 but its costa and costal cilia are too short. In Borgmeier’s (1964) key to Nearctic species Group I it runs to couplet 13, lead 1 M. fenestrata (Malloch), but its palps are yellow and legs are yellowish. Etymology. Named after Dr. Ebrahim Zarghani (Former Ph.D. student of Prof. Khaghaninia).