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)
Author
Hartop, Emily A.
Author
Brown, Brian V.
Author
Disney, R. Henry L.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3941
4
451
484
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3941.4.1
4a423dfe-e6dc-48fc-8149-d17562f026b3
1175-5326
242977
0282A923-893A-45BC-941A-6CDECBE36618
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).