Sixteen in One: White-Belted Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) From the New World Challenge Species Concepts Author Brown, Brian V. Entomology Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, bbrown@nhm.org Author Hartop, Emily A. Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Museum für Naturkunde-Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany, Author Wong, Maria A. Entomology Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, and text Insect Systematics and Diversity 2022 2022-05-09 6 3 1 17 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac008 journal article 10.1093/isd/ixac008 b99fe20b-b634-4645-93fd-38c1ca1764fa 2399-3421 10832806

Table 2. Description of Megaselia sulphurizona Borgmeier following the table-based method of Hartop and Brown (2014)

Head
SA ratio	0.77–0.80
VIF position	normal
SPS vesicles	absent
Palpal setae length	long
Labellum spinosity	not spinose
Thorax
Anepisternum	bare
Relative halter color	same
# NP setae	3
NP cleft	absent
Scutellar setae	2 + 2
Leg
ts1 palisade	1 to 5
t2 palisade	0.62
t3 comb bifurcate	absent
t3 setulae	PD only
f3 basal setae	B> AV
f3 basal setae differentiation	absent
Wing
Wing Length (mm)	1.44–1.66
Subcosta	incomplete
R seta	absent
R2 + 3	present
Costal index	0.35–0.44
Costal ratios	3.6–4.13: 1.07–1.69: 1
Costal setae length (mm)	0.10
Number alular setae	2
Alular setae length (mm)	0.13
Wing color	clear to lightly infuscated
Genitalia	Fig #
AT length	AT = E
E setation	hairs + bristles
Hypandrium	with long process on left side.