Stomoxys Geoffroy

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5309455
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B159E02-6420-5710-6AB1-A9387E8B4181
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Stomoxys Geoffroy
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Genus Stomoxys Geoffroy View in CoL , new record

Stomoxys Geoffroy, 1762: 449 View in CoL , 538. Type-species: Conops calcitrans Linnaeus, 1758 , des. I.C.Z.N., Opinion 441 (1957).

Diagnosis. General colour brownish-grey to yellowish-brown; head slightly wider than high; vertex about one-fourth of head width in male and over one-third in female; arista plumose on dorsal side; proboscis long and piercing, non-retractile; palpus slender and short; postpedicel about 2.5 times as long as pedicel; prosternum and proepisternal depression setulose; prealar seta absent; anterior katepisternal absent; vein M conspicuously curved forward towards vein R 4+ 5 in its apical section.

Comments. The genus is here recorded from Vanuatu for the first time. Two species have been recorded from the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, S. calcitrans (Linnaeus) and S. indicus Picard. The Australian Stomoxyini were reviewed by Pont (1973a).