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30 new species discovered in Los Angeles in first-ever intensive urban biodiversity survey
2015-03-25 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] A new paper to be published in the journal Zootaxa (April 6, 2015) describes 30 new insect species in a single genus, Megaselia, of the fly family Phoridae. Describing 30 species in a single paper is rare, but what's especially striking is that all these come from urban Los Angeles. The discoveries come from researchers in the BioSCAN project (Biodiversity Science: City and Nature) at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM). The BioSCAN pro…
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