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)

Zootaxa

Volumn 3941, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 451-484

  Hartop, Emily A ^a   Brown, Brian V ^a   Disney, R Henry L ^b  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diptera; Phoridae; Urban biodiversity

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; PHORIDAE;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; BODY SIZE; CALIFORNIA; CLASSIFICATION; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LOS ANGELES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84930790140     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.4.1     Document Type: Article

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