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<mods:title>A new species group in Megaselia, the lucifrons group, with description of a new species (Diptera, Phoridae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Ulefors, Sven Olof</mods:namePart>
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classification Animalia Diptera Phoridae
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/491B368D-3065-403A-919F-A2AB5FE08ABE" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Megaselia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megaselia albalucifrons" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albalucifrons">Megaselia albalucifrons</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="14" pageNumber="103">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="103">Material examined.</paragraph>
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Holotype male, in alcohol, (LA214) SWEDEN, Sm,
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kommun, Stenbrohult,
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bokbacke, Heath with old beeches.
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="56.609135">N56°36.548'</geoCoordinate>
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="14.19305">E14°11.583'</geoCoordinate>
(=TrapID 24) 30.iv.-31-v.2005 (=coll. event ID 1672) Leg. Swedish Malaise Trap Project (Swedish Museum of Natural History).
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="103">Paratypes, 4 males, same as holotype (LA207, LA212, LA215, LA216).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="103">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
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The habitus (Fig. 2) is very similar to
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, but the species can be distinguished by the narrower and more lightly colored hypandrial left lobe (Fig. 6c). The proctiger hair is also slightly stronger than in
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(Fig. 5). In the phallus, the tip of the truncus (Fig. 3c) is more rounded in
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than in both
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and
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.
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="103">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="103">Male: Frons dark brown and shiny with about 70 hairs, about as broad as long. Postpedicels brown. Palps light yellow with 6-8 setae. Labellum broad, light yellow as palps, densely covered with spinules. Anepisternum with 10-18 hairs. Thorax brown. Three notopleural setae, without cleft in front of them. Scutellum with anterior pair of hairs and posterior pair of setae. Abdominal tergites brown with hairs distally and laterally, especially T6 with long, strong hairs at the rear margin. Venter brown with hairs on segment 3-6. Hypopygium with brown epandrium with fine hairs on both sides, but not dorsally, and longer hairs at the lower margin (Fig. 5, left side of epandrium). Pale yellow to light brown anal tube, cercus with 14 downbent hairs and the somewhat downbent proctiger with strong pair of upbent hairs at the tip (Fig. 5). Hypandrium brown, except for pale left lobe. Legs colored as follows: Fore and middle legs yellow or brownish yellow, hind legs with coxae yellow and femur to tarsae brown. Hind femur with lighter, triangular shaped patch at the base. Wings (Fig. 3a) 1.3-1.6 mm long. Costal index 0.40-0.47. Costal ratios 4.0-4.4: 1.5-1.8: 1. Costal cilia (of section 3) 0.05-0.07 mm long. With 3 axillary setae, all about twice as long as costal cilia. A minute hair is situated at the base of vein 3. Veins light brown or brown. Wing membrane tinged light brown or brown (visible to the naked eye against a white background). Haltere knob light yellow, almost white.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="103">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The name is derived from the Latin word
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(white, pale), referring to the left lobe of the hypandrium, which is pale in comparison to that of
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.
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="103">Distribution and ecology.</paragraph>
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is found in Southern and central Sweden (Fig. 7), so far no specimens have been found from traps in Northern Sweden.
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="103">Remarks.</paragraph>
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runs to couplet 104 in
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key (
<bibRefCitation author="Disney, RHL" journalOrPublisher="Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects" pageId="15" pageNumber="104" pagination="1 - 155" title="Scuttle flies - Diptera: Phoridae Genus Megaselia." volume="10" year="1989">1989</bibRefCitation>
), together with
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.
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