Musca ventrosa Wiedemann, 1830

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 11-12

7. Musca ventrosa Wiedemann , new record

Musca ventrosa Wiedemann, 1830: 656 . Lectotype male, China, in NMW, des. Pont (1973a: 164).

Diagnosis. Fronto-orbital plates in both sexes silver to greyish pollinose; palpus dark, cylindrical in male, a little enlarged and flattened in female; scutum bluish with grey pollinosity, two very narrow black presutural vittae; legs black; abdomen entirely orange-yellow; sternite 1 bare.

Male hypopygium as in Figs 24, 29 and 34; male aedeagus with the postgonite minute; praegonite without setae (Fig. 39); epiphallus well developed, rounded at tip (Fig. 44); female ovipositor long as in Figs 57 and 58 (all Figs in Pont 1973a).

Material examined. BPBM: Vanuatu: Éfaté: Port Vila, viii. 1950, 2 ♂, 2 ♀; 0–5 m, ii.1970, 1 ♀; iii.1970, 3 ♀, 0–200 m, ii.1973, 1 ♀. 0–100 m, i.1976, 3 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss; Havannah, Harbor, 0–50 m, 19.i.1973, 2 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss; Port Vila , 0–100 m, iii.1980, 1 ♂, 2 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss . Epi: Lamen Bay , 0–20 m, 8.ii.1976, 1 ♂, N.L.H. Krauss . Malekula: Lakatoro , 29.ix.1967, 1 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss . Tanna: Lenakel , 0– 200 m, i.1973, 2 ♀; 0–150 m, i.1971, 1 ♀; iii–1970, 1 ♀ ( BMNH); 0–100 m, xi.1978, 2 ♀ ( MNHN & MNRJ), N.L.H. Krauss; White Grass, 0–120 m, 8.iii.1980, 1 ♂, N.L.H. Krauss .

Comments. This is the first record of the species from Vanuatu. Pont (1973a) redescribed the species.

Distribution. Australia (NT, Qld, WA), Indonesia (West Papua, Maluku), New Caledonia ( New

Caledonia), PNG ( PNG), Solomon Is, Vanuatu; Afrotropical and Oriental Regions.