Parvisquama Malloch, 1935

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 28

Genus Parvisquama Malloch

Lispocephala subgenus Parvisquama Malloch, 1935a: 662 . Type-species: Lispocephala (Parvisquama) pahangensis

Malloch, 1935, orig. des.

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Diagnosis. Small species, about 3.5 mm long; ocellar triangle long and narrow, reaching lunule; lower calypter reduced, linear; basal scutellar seta half as long as apical seta; fore tibia without submedian setae; mid tibia with only one posterodorsal seta; hind tibia with two pairs of anterodorsal and posterodorsal setae, and one anteroventral.

Comments. Eight species have been recorded in the Australasia and Oceania Regions; only two are found on Vanuatu, one of which is described here as new. Most species of Parvisquama are distinguished by the structure of the male sternite 5 and terminalia, with few features of external morphology or colour ( Snyder 1965). The two species recorded here can be separated only in the male sex and most reliably only by the shape and armature of sternite 5.