Sixteen in One: White-Belted <i>Megaselia</i> Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) From the New World Challenge Species Concepts

Abstract We review the species of Megaselia similar to sulphurizona Borgmeier. A close examination M. indicates that its current concept includes at least 16 species, 15 which— albizona, borealizona, colombizona, cryptizona, danizona, guanizona, marizona, nivizona, oklizona, paulizona, reductizona, solizona, tropizona, wendizona, and winnizona are described as new, based primarily on molecular data. The identity holotype is clarified through wing vein morphometrics. Two new albizona 47th 48th phorid fly from BioSCAN project, an urban biodiversity study in Los Angeles, California, U.S.