Stomorhina (Verves, 2005)

Bharti, M., 2014, New Record Of Stomorhina Siamensis Kurahashi Et Tumrasvin, 1992 From India, With Revised Key To Indian Species Of The Genus Stomorhina (Diptera: Calliphoridae, Far Eastern Entomologist 281, pp. 7-11 : 9-10

KEY TO INDIAN SPECIES OF GENUS STOMORHINA

1. Mesopleuron with 1-2 bristles on the upper corner of the posterior margin …………….. 2

– Mesopleuron with a complete row of black bristles on posterior margin. – Oriental region [ Nepal, India (Indian Himalayas and Nilgiri Hills), Myanmar and Malaysia] …………… ………..……………………………………………………………... S. procula (Walker)

2. Mesopleuron without distinct piliferous spots ..…………………………………………. 3

– Mesopleuron with distinct piliferous spots ……………………………………………..... 4

3. Sternopleuron densely yellow pruinose as the mesopleuron; thoracic squama with lobulated inner border; R 5 closed, petiolate. – Oriental [ China, Nepal, India, Srilanka, Malaysia, Indonesia] Australasian/Oceanian and Palaearctic regions …………….……… ……………………………………………………………. S. xanthogaster (Wiedemann)

– Sternopleuron and hypopleuron glossy black, not pruinose; R 5 open; abdomen dark violet. – Oriental region [ Nepal, India (Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Srilanka, Sri Lanka, Indonesia China], Australasian/Oceanian region …………………………….. ………………………………………………………………. S. melastoma (Wiedemann)

4. R 5 open …………………………………………………………………………………… 5

– R 5 closed ………………………………………………………………………………..... 7

5. Abdomen luteous, hind margins of first and second abdominal segments black banded; antennae brown, thickly grey dusted, second antennal segment reddish; coxae of foreleg yellow. – Widely distributed in the Oriental, Palaearctic, Australasian and Oceanian regions ………….………………………………………………… S. discolor (Fabricius)

– Abdomen with yellow and black pattern ………………………………………………... 6

6. First abdominal segment black, second and third bright yellow with hind margins narrowly black; wings clear; legs brown appearing greyish in certain lights. – Palaearctic, Afrotropical and Madagascan, Nearctic regions, Oriental region [Baluchistan, China, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, India (Indian Himalayas and Nilgiri Hills, West Bengal)].…………………………………………………………… S. lunata (Fabricius)

– Abdomen blackish, segment second and third with their anterior margins and laterally yellow banded, interrupted medianly, but continued on to venter on each side, giving the appearance of black median stripe and black transverse bands; segment four brilliant green; wings greyish-hyaline with a darkened spot apically; legs black except tibiae and tarsi reddish. – Oriental [ China, India (Assam), Indonesia, Malaysia, Indonesia] ……… …………………………………………….................................... S. unicolor (Macquart)

7. Abdomen dark green, elongate; parafrontals grey with black spots; pleura with thin ashy pile-stripe. – Oriental region [ India (Kerala, Assam), Malaysia and Indonesia] …….…… ……………………..……………………………………………. S. townsendi Kurahashi

– Abdomen bronze with bluish tinge laterally; parafrontals black, subshining with black spots, pleura yellowish grey dusted, with yellow hairs. – Oriental region [known only from India (Kerala, Karnataka), Thailand and Vietnam] ..……… S. siamensis Kurahashi