Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus)

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 13

9. Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus) , new record

Conops calcitrans Linnaeus, 1758: 604 . Lectotype female, Sweden, LSL, des. Pont (1981: 168).

Diagnosis. Frons broad in both sexes, about 1/4 of head width in male and 1/ 2 in female; legs dark brown, tibiae narrowly yellow at base; vein R 4+5 setulose at base; tergites 3–5 with a median brown stripe not reaching margins and a pair of lateral oval black spots. Male hypopygium as in Figs 145–147; male aedeagus with the praegonite without setae and distiphallus bifurcate at apex (Fig. 149); female ovipositor as in Figs 155 and 156 (all Figs in Pont 1973a).

Material examined. BPBM: Vanuatu: Éfaté: Port Vila , 0–100 m, iii.1970, 1 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss .

Comments. The species is recorded from Vanuatu for the first time, based in the capture of one female specimen .

Distribution. Widespread in the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, New Zealand, New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), Vanuatu; cosmopolitan.