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).