Musca vetustissima Walker, 1849
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10537967 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4947D67F-3341-FFAB-FF55-374BFE213A2D |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Musca vetustissima Walker |
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10. Musca vetustissima Walker View in CoL , new record
Musca vetustissima Walker, 1849: 902 View in CoL . Holotype female, “ New Holland ” [ Australia], in BMNH ( Pont, 1973b: 148).
Diagnosis. Fronto-orbital plates in both sexes silver to greyish pollinose; palpus dark, cylindrical at tip; proepisternal depression bare; scutum with the two black vittae on each side separated before suture and fused behind it, the scutum thus appearing bivittate after suture; sternite 1 bare; male syntergite 1+2 entirely black. Male hypopygium as in Figs 23 View FIGURES 17–26 , 28 and 33 View FIGURES 27–34. 27–33 ; male aedeagus with the postgonite minute; praegonite with 1 seta; epiphallus well developed, forked at tip (Fig. 43); female ovipositor long as in Figs 55 and 56 (all Figs in Pont, 1973a).
Material examined: BPBM: New Caledonia: Forêt de Thi : 100–200 m, 9.iii.1961, 1 ♂, M. Sedlacek. Plaine des Lacs : 30.x.1958, 1 ♂; 6.xi.1958, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Yahoue: 2.iii.1978, 1 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss. Yaté: 30.x.1958, 2 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Isle of Pines : 23.x.1940, 1 ♀; 24.x.1940, 3 ♀, F.X. Williams. Loyalty Islands: Lifou: We , 30–31.i.1962, 2 ♂, N.L.H. Krauss; 16–18.ii.1963, 2 ♂, C.M. Yoshimoto.
Comments. This is the first record of this species, the common “bush fly” of Australia, in New Caledonia. Redescription, comments on types, synonymies, details on geographic records and biology in Pont (1973a) .
Distribution. Widespread, Indonesia and Australia to Hawai‘ian Is, New Caledonia ( New Caledonia, Isle of Pines, Loyalty Is).
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Bishop Museum |
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