Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5309469

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scientific name

Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy
status

 

Genus Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL View at ENA

Muscina Robineau View in CoL –Desvoidy, 1830: 406. Type-species: Musca stabulans Fallén, 1817 View in CoL , des. Coquillett (1910: 571).

Diagnosis. Male holoptic, eye bare; arista plumose with hairs on basal three-fourths and bare on the apical fourth; female with crossed setae on frontal vitta; anterior postsutural intraalar seta placed posterior to level of supraalar seta; presutural acrostichals developed; prealar seta short, but distinct; anepimeron bare; meron setulose; wing with apical section of vein M slightly curved forward, veins bare; hind tibia with calcar strong, submedian; sternite 1 setulose.

Comments. Two species of Muscina were listed from the Australasian/Oceanian Regions by Pont (1989), and since then Muscina arcuata Shinonaga, 1989 has been described from Bougainville Island. Only M. stabulans has been recorded from Vanuatu.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Loc

Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe 2010
2010
Loc

Muscina Robineau

Coquillett, D. W. 1910: 571
1910
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