Heliographa excellens ( Stein, 1900 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 4

Heliographa excellens ( Stein, 1900)

Figs 21–24

Lectotype. Female. Lectotype designated by Pont (1969: 84). Papua New Guinea .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (female). Head. Pedicel and postpedicel yellow. Arista dark brown; arista short pubescent. Palpus yellowish-brown. Mouth edge projected forward in lateral view. Thorax. Ground-colour of scutum brown with grey-white pruinose transverse band presuturally and before scutellum, the presutural one complete, not interrupted at middle. Pleura yellowish-grey dusted. Prosternum bare. Anterior spiracle dark brown. Meron bare. Scutellum with lateral margins bare. Wing. R 4+5 at base with 2 setulae on dorsal side and 3–4 on ventral side. Abdomen. Ground-colour orange-yellow, with brown median and lateral spots on tergites 3–5. Sternite 1 with a few setulae.

Remarks. Shinonaga and Pont (1988) redescribed the male and female, illustrated the male terminalia, and gave a key for the identification of the Melanesian species of Heliographa which includes H. excellens .