Hydrotaea spinigera (Stein)

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, Zootaxa 2503 (1), pp. 1-61 : 25-26

15. Hydrotaea spinigera (Stein)

Ophyra spinigera Stein, 1910: 555 . Holotype male, Singapore, destroyed, formerly in HMNH. ( Pont, 1973a: 238) Hydrotaea spinigera ; Shinonaga et al., 1991: 330.

Diagnosis. Body colour black metallic; posterior margin of eye concave; frontal triangle broad in female, the crossed setae on frontal vitta closer to eye margin than to each other; anterior katepisternal seta fine or absent; wing with at least the discal cell partially without microtrichia; male fore femur not modified; mid femur in male with 2–3 short stout erect blunt spines at base of ventral surface; hind femur with 1–2 ventral spines near base; male aedeagus with praegonite with 2 setae. Male terminalia as in Figs 124, 128 and 132 and female ovipositor as in Figs 138 and 139 (all in Pont, 1973a).

Material examined: MNHN: New Caledonia: Col de Pétchécara : 15 km W of Thio, 25.ii.1978, 3 ♂, S. Shinonaga, Shinonaga det. Rivière Bleue: Parc 5, 168b, 19.xi–04.xii.1985, 1 ♂ ( MNRJ) , L.B.dL., J.C.

NSMT: New Caledonia: Col de Pétchécara : 15 km W of Thio, 25.ii.1978, 14 ♂, 6 ♀, S. Shinonaga, Shinonaga det.

BPBM: New Caledonia: Nouméa : Anse Vata : 23.xi.1958, 1 ♀, C.R. Joyce. Plaine des Lacs: 5.xi.1958, 1 ♂, bait trap, C.R. Joyce. In Mts up Boulari R [Road]: 3–4.xi.1958, 1 ♀, C.R. Joyce .

Comments. First recorded from New Caledonia, from Col Pétchécara, by Shinonaga et al. (1991). Redescription, comments on types, synonymies, details on geographic records and biology in Pont (1973a, as Ophyra spinigera ).

Distribution. Australia (NSW, NT, Qld), Belau, Fiji, Guam, Indonesia (Maluku, Ambon, Ceram, Flores, Timor), Micronesia, New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), PNG (Bismarck Arch., PNG), Solomon Is, Vanuatu, Western Samoa; East Asia, Oriental Region.