Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B159E02-6420-5711-6AB1-AC127EB643D4 |
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Felipe |
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Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy |
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Genus Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL
Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 509 View in CoL . Type-species: Musca meteorica Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , des. Curtis (1839: plate 768).
Diagnosis. Male holoptic; eye bare; general colour black metallic; arista very short pubescent; gena with a strong upcurved seta in anterior part; female with a pair of cruciate setae on frontal vitta, and with lower orbital seta proclinate; dorsocentrals 2+4; notopleuron with or without ground setulae; anepimeron bare; katepisternals 1:1 (or 0: 1 in some specimens of H. spinigera ); vein M straight; distiphallus with apical part of juxta spinulose; ovipositor long, with narrow tergites.
Comments. Six species have been recorded from the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, two of them from Vanuatu: H. chalcogaster (Wiedemann) and H. spinigera (Stein) , the former being more commom and the second one represented by only three females.
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Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy
| Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe 2010 |
Hydrotaea
| Robineau-Desvoidy, A. J. B. 1830: 509 |