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<taxonomicName id="4C69FDF94C56FF8BFED67C2BFDAEFBC1" ID-CoL="8CRQN" authority="Collin" authorityName="Collin" box="[264,560,1124,1150]" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Megaselia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mera">
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFED67C2BFE57FBC1" bold="true" box="[264,457,1124,1150]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Megaselia mera</emphasis>
(Collin)
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(
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,
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)
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<taxonomicName id="4C69FDF94C56FF8BFED67C98FDC2FB52" authority="Collin, 1912" authorityName="Collin" authorityYear="1912" box="[264,604,1238,1262]" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Aphiochaeta" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mera">
<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFED67C98FE52FB51" box="[264,460,1239,1262]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Aphiochaeta mera</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF8FB8B4C56FF8BFE0D7C99FDC2FB52" author="Collin" box="[467,604,1238,1261]" pageId="13" pageNumber="25" refString="Collin, J. E. (1912) Diptera. Phoridae from Seychelles. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 15, 105 - 18." type="journal article" year="1912">Collin, 1912</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFED67CB8FE2BFAB1" box="[264,437,1271,1294]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Megaselia mera</emphasis>
(Collin)
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. Borgmeier, 1968.
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As
<taxonomicName id="4C69FDF94C56FF8BFEEC7D70FDE5FAE6" ID-CoL="3YY6J" authority="Disney (1991)" authorityName="Disney" authorityYear="1991" box="[306,635,1343,1369]" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Megaselia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jorgensis">
<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFEEC7D70FE5BFAE7" box="[306,453,1343,1368]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. jorgensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF8FB8B4C56FF8BFE107D70FDE5FAE6" author="Disney" box="[462,635,1343,1369]" pageId="13" pageNumber="25" refString="Disney, R. H. L. (1991) Scuttle flies of the Cape Verde Islands (Diptera, Phoridae). Journal of African Zoology, 105, 205 - 41." type="journal article" year="1991">Disney (1991)</bibRefCitation>
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, from the
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Islands, and two species, described below closely resemble this species, which was omitted from Beyer’s (1965) keys, it is necessary to clarify its recognition first. In Beyer’s keys
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFC417DC0FB9CFA17" box="[927,1026,1423,1448]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. mera</emphasis>
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runs to couplet 3, lead 2, on page 56, to
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFE647DF8FDAEFA6F" box="[442,560,1463,1488]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. lilliput</emphasis>
Beyer
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, which is only known from a single female from
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. Likewise Collin described this species from a single female from the
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. I have remounted his
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female on a slide. This revealed an error in the original description when it stated that the frons is longer than wide. In fact it is slightly wider than the midline length. This means the species closely resembles the female of the subsequently described
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFED67E30FE07F927" box="[264,409,1663,1688]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. jorgensis</emphasis>
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. The latter has straw yellow, as opposed to yellowish brown postpedicels, and its abdominal tergite 7 lacks the small, incipient, anterolateral apodemes that are present in
<taxonomicName id="4C69FDF94C56FF8BFED67E80FEF5F957" ID-CoL="8CRQN" box="[264,363,1743,1768]" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Megaselia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mera">
<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFED67E80FEF5F957" box="[264,363,1743,1768]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. mera</emphasis>
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(cf.
<figureCitation id="13529AFF4C56FF8BFE7D7E80FDCBF956" box="[419,597,1743,1769]" captionStart="FIGURES 24 – 28" captionStartId="17.[264,382,1091,1115]" captionTargetBox="[476,1095,327,1059]" captionTargetId="figure@17.[453,1133,284,1075]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 24 – 28. Megaselia species, details of abdomen. (24) M. jorgensis female, tergite 7; (25 – 28) M. mera: (25) female, tergites 6 and 7; (26) female, vaginal sclerites (anterior end facing top of page); (27) male, left face of hypopygium; (28) anal tube from another angle. Scale bars = 0.1 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/172470/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Figs 24 and 25</figureCitation>
). Other details of the female of
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C56FF8BFC147E80FBB0F957" box="[970,1070,1743,1768]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. mera</emphasis>
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are shown in
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and
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. Internally it has only two rectal papillae and a simple Dufour’s crop mechanism that is rounded behind and about twice as long as its greatest breadth.
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The females of these two species closely resemble the description of Beyer’s species, which differs only in having dark brown haltere knobs, darker brown postpedicels and in supposedly lacking the Sc, which is present but faint in
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C55FF88FC46790BFC65FEE2" box="[920,1019,324,349]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. mera</emphasis>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="4C69FDF94C55FF88FBEA790BFB54FEE2" ID-CoL="3YY6J" box="[1076,1226,324,349]" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Megaselia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jorgensis">M. jorgensis</taxonomicName>
,
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and the posterodorsal hairs of the mid tibia being differentiated in the lower half only, unlike
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C55FF88FAD57923FEDAFE12" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. mera</emphasis>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="4C69FDF94C55FF88FEA379DBFD8DFE12" ID-CoL="3YY6J" box="[381,531,404,429]" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Megaselia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jorgensis">M. jorgensis</taxonomicName>
.
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The hitherto unknown male of
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C55FF88FD6479F3FCBFFE6A" box="[698,801,444,469]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. mera</emphasis>
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is described below. It also proves to very similar to
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C55FF88FEA079ABFD90FE42" box="[382,526,484,509]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. jorgensis</emphasis>
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. They are most readily distinguished by the labella of the proboscis, being broadened anteriorly (
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) (as in the next species,
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) as opposed to being narrowed anteriorly in
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C55FF88FDCB7A7BFD38FDF2" box="[533,678,564,589]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. jorgensis</emphasis>
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(
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). In addition the colour of the postpedicels of the two species differ as in the females. Relevant details of
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C55FF88FC177A13FBC2FDCA" box="[969,1116,604,629]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. jorgensis</emphasis>
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are given in
<figureCitation id="13529AFF4C55FF88FB267A13FECFFD21" captionStart-0="FIGURES 15" captionStart-1="FIGURES 18 – 23" captionStartId-0="15.[264,382,1052,1076]" captionStartId-1="16.[264,382,1574,1598]" captionTargetBox-0="[453,1133,318,1052]" captionTargetBox-1="[489,1120,757,1555]" captionTargetId-0="figure@15.[453,1133,316,1052]" captionTargetId-1="figure@16.[453,1133,740,1567]" captionTargetPageId-0="15" captionTargetPageId-1="16" captionText-0="FIGURES 15 – Megaselia jorgensis. (15) male, left face of hypopygium; (16) female, vaginal sclerites; (17) female, abdominal tergites 2 – 6. Scale bars = 0.1 mm." captionText-1="FIGURES 18 – 23. Megaselia species, labrum and labella of proboscis from above. (18) M. jorgensis female; (19) M. jorgensis male; (20) M. mera male; (21) M. mera female; (22) M." httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/172468/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/172469/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Figs 15–19</figureCitation>
and
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for comparison with
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.
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C55FF88FED67A9BFEDAFD52" box="[264,324,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Male</emphasis>
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Frons brown, a little broader than long, with 80–104 hairs and dense but very fine microsetae. SAs robust but lower pair shorter and weaker. Upper SAs slightly lower on frons than antials which are about equidistant from anterolaterals, which are distinctly higher on frons. Pre­ocellars ranging from being closer together to a little further apart than either is from a mediolateral bristle, which is about level with the former. Cheek with 3–5 bristles and jowl with 1–2 longer ones. Postpedicels subglobose, straw yellow lightly tinged brown, and without SPS vesicles. Palps pale straw yellow, with 5 bristles (all clearly shorter than lower SAs) and 1–6 hairs. Labrum (
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) almost as pale as palps and about 0.6x as wide as postpedicel. Labella (
<figureCitation id="13529AFF4C55FF88FC907C73FC39FBE9" box="[846,935,1084,1110]" captionStart="FIGURES 18 – 23" captionStartId="16.[264,382,1574,1598]" captionTargetBox="[489,1120,757,1555]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[453,1133,740,1567]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURES 18 – 23. Megaselia species, labrum and labella of proboscis from above. (18) M. jorgensis female; (19) M. jorgensis male; (20) M. mera male; (21) M. mera female; (22) M." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/172469/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Fig. 20</figureCitation>
) about as dark on top, and with dense fields of short spinules below. Thorax chestnut brown, being a little paler on sides. Mesopleuron bare. Two notopleural bristles and no cleft in front of these. Scutellum with an anterior pair of hairs (shorter than hairs at rear of scutum) and a posterior pair of bristles. Abdominal tergites brown with the hairs at rear of T6 longer than rest (
<figureCitation id="13529AFF4C55FF88FB1A7C93FA80FB49" box="[1220,1310,1244,1270]" captionStart="FIGURES 24 – 28" captionStartId="17.[264,382,1091,1115]" captionTargetBox="[476,1095,327,1059]" captionTargetId="figure@17.[453,1133,284,1075]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 24 – 28. Megaselia species, details of abdomen. (24) M. jorgensis female, tergite 7; (25 – 28) M. mera: (25) female, tergites 6 and 7; (26) female, vaginal sclerites (anterior end facing top of page); (27) male, left face of hypopygium; (28) anal tube from another angle. Scale bars = 0.1 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/172470/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Fig. 27</figureCitation>
). Venter dusky straw yellow, and with hairs below segments 5–6, those on 3–4 being reduced to microsetae. Hypopygium brown, but anal tube pale straw yellow, and as
<figureCitation id="13529AFF4C55FF88FB247D63FEE0FAD1" captionStart="FIGURES 24 – 28" captionStartId="17.[264,382,1091,1115]" captionTargetBox="[476,1095,327,1059]" captionTargetId="figure@17.[453,1133,284,1075]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 24 – 28. Megaselia species, details of abdomen. (24) M. jorgensis female, tergite 7; (25 – 28) M. mera: (25) female, tergites 6 and 7; (26) female, vaginal sclerites (anterior end facing top of page); (27) male, left face of hypopygium; (28) anal tube from another angle. Scale bars = 0.1 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/172470/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Figs 27 and 28</figureCitation>
. Right lobe of hypandrium vestigial. With two rectal papillae. Legs straw yellow apart from brown tip to hind femur and brown patch on mid coxa. Fore tarsus with posterodorsal hair palisade on segments 1–5, and 5 slightly longer than 4. Dorsal hair palisade of mid tibia extends about 0.8x length. Some of hairs below basal half of hind femur clearly longer than those of anteroventral row of outer half.
<collectingCountry id="F37EC6EA4C55FF88FBEE7DBBFBF5F9B1" box="[1072,1131,1524,1550]" name="India" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Hind</collectingCountry>
tibia with 8–10 clearly differentiated posterodorsal hairs. Spinules of apical combs simple. Wings 1.0–
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long. Costal index 0.41–0.42. Vein 3 unforked. Costal ratios 1.3–1.6: 1. Costal cilia (of section 2)
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long. A small hair at base of vein 3. With 1–2 (usually 2) axillary bristles, the outer being longer than costal cilia. Sc not reaching R1. Veins brown but 7 pale and obscure basally. Membrane lightly tinged grey. Haltere with yellowish brown knob that is typically paler than the stem.
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C54FF89FED67C53FE3FFB8B" bold="true" box="[264,417,1052,1076]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">FIGURES 15</emphasis>
–
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.
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(15) male, left face of hypopygium; (16) female, vaginal sclerites; (17) female, abdominal tergites 2–6. Scale bars = 0.1mm.
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<emphasis id="B91D5A684C54FF89FED67CC5FEF1FB1C" box="[264,367,1162,1187]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Material</emphasis>
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female,
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(19 – NHM,
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(E) 249426).
<specimenCount id="9D6F4DF34C54FF89FBE37CFDFB00FB73" box="[1085,1182,1202,1228]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male">4 males</specimenCount>
,
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, Silhouette Island, La Passe, 1–
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July &amp;
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, J. Gerlach (
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, 8­98, 118, 125;
<specimenCount id="9D6F4DF34C54FF89FE997D4DFE39FAA3" box="[327,423,1282,1308]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male">4 males</specimenCount>
, S. I, Jardin Marron,
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, J. Gerlach (
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, 8­133, 141, 142);
<specimenCount id="9D6F4DF34C54FF89FAC27D4DFED1FAFB" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male">2 males</specimenCount>
, Grande Barbe, Old Village,
<date id="FFD7A0BA4C54FF89FD617D65FCC6FAFB" box="[703,856,1322,1348]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" value="2001-06-02">2 June 2001</date>
J. Gerlach (
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, 8­137);
<specimenCount id="9D6F4DF34C54FF89FB1D7D65FABBFAFB" box="[1219,1317,1322,1348]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male">2 males</specimenCount>
, Lantana, Lantana North,
<date id="FFD7A0BA4C54FF89FDEC7D1DFCD8FAD3" box="[562,838,1362,1388]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" value="2000-07-30" valueMax="2000-08-01" valueMin="2000-07-30">30 July­1 August 2000</date>
, J. Gerlach (
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, 8­1§26);
<specimenCount id="9D6F4DF34C54FF89FB6F7D1DFA9BFAD3" box="[1201,1285,1362,1388]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
, St Anne Is.,
<date id="FFD7A0BA4C54FF89FEA47D35FDC5FA2B" box="[378,603,1402,1428]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" value="2001-12-12">12 December 2001</date>
, J. Gerlach (
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, 8­145).
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</treatment>
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