Myospila propinqua (Stein)

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 22

20. Myospila propinqua (Stein)

Spilogaster propinqua Stein, 1900a: 386 . Holotype male, Ambon Island, Maluku, Indonesia, in MCSNG ( Pont 1966: 100).

Myospila propinqua ; Pont, 1989: 689.

Diagnosis. Width of eyes in male intermediate, frons broadening to lunule; antenna with pedicel yellow and postpedicel dark brown; scutum brown, silvery-grey pollinose, with two brown stripes along dorsocentral lines; anterior spiracle yellow; halter yellow, calypters yellow; upper posterior katepisternal very long; scutellum yellow on apical third; femora brown at apex, tibiae and tarsi yellow; wing slightly yellowish, more intensely in anterior half; abdomen grey with round brown marks on all tergites; male surstylus and cercal plate as in Figs 112 and 113 and female ovipositor as in Fig. 123 of Vockeroth (1972).

Material examined. BPBM: Vanuatu: Éfaté: Port Vila, 0–5 m, ii.1970, 1 ♂; 0–100 m, i.1976, 1 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss; Port Vila , 0–100 m, iii.1980, 1 ♂ ( MNRJ), N.L.H. Krauss . Epi: Vaemali , 80–150 m, 6– 10.viii.1967, 2 ♀, J. & M. Sedlacek . Lamen: 0–100 m, i.1976, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (1 MNHN), N.L.H. Krauss . Malekula: Lamap , 8–21.ix.1967, 4 ♂ (1 MNHN, 1 BMNH), 19 ♀ (1 MNRJ, 1 BMNH)), J. & M. Sedlacek; N. Lakatoro, 22–30.1967, 1 ♀, M. Sedlacek . Tanna: Lanekel , 0–150 m, iii.1970, 1 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss .

BMNH: Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo: 25 km NW of Rougainville [sic], 8-11.ii.1978, 1 ♂, H. Kurahashi ; Malekula: 14.vi.1925, 1 ♂, P.A. Buxton; NE, v.1929, 2 ♂, L.E. Cheesman; Majua Bay , vi.1929, 1 ♂, L.E. Cheesman; Ounua, iii-iv.1929, 3 ♂ 1 ♀, L.E. Cheesman .

Comments. This species was first recorded from Vanuatu by Pont (1989).

Distribution. Bellona I., Indonesia (Maluku), New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), PNG ( PNG), Rennell I., Solomon Is, Vanuatu.