Helina Robineau-Desvoidy

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 20

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

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scientific name

Helina Robineau-Desvoidy
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Genus Helina Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL , new record

Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 493 View in CoL . Type-species: Helina euphemioidea Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL [= Anthomyia pertusa Meigen, 1826 ], des. Coquillett (1901: 137).

Diagnosis. Male head holoptic or dichoptic; eye with few hairs; arista plumose; scutum with 4 dark vittae; dorsocentrals 2+3–4; fore tibia without submedian seta; veins R 4+5 and M conspicuously divergent at apex; prosternum and anepimeron bare; wing veins bare; prealar present; hind tibia with the calcar absent. Comments. The genus is widespread in Australia and New Guinea, and is here recorded for the first time from Vanuatu, based on the presence of one species that has only recently been described from New Caledonia ( Couri et al. 2010).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Loc

Helina Robineau-Desvoidy

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

Helina

Coquillett, D. W. 1901: 137
Robineau-Desvoidy, A. J. B. 1830: 493
1830
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