Atherigona (Atherigona) oryzae Malloch 1925
Authors/Creators
- 1. Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 20.940 - 040. E-mail: mcouri @ terra. com. br Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, U. K. E-mail: pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, UMR 7205, CP 50 - 45 Rue de Buffon, 75005 Paris, France. E-mail: daugeron @ mnhn. fr
Description
Atherigona oryzae Malloch, 1925b: 117. Holotype male, Coimbatore, India in USNM.
Atherigona samoaensis Malloch, 1929a: 159. Holotype male, Safune, Savai’i, Western Samoa, in BMNH (syn. by Pont 1986) (type seen by Pont 1986).
Atherigona oryzae; Pont, 1986: 42; Pont, 1989: 682.
Diagnosis. Face and gena greyish; palpus yellow, brownish at base; male palpus short, club-like and yellow; legs yellow to fulvous-yellow except for a narrow preapical brown band on fore femur, fore tibia darker apically; wing with a faint small brownish cloud at apex of subcosta (Pont 1972a: Fig. 6b), smaller or totally absent in female; male with hypopygial prominence large, bifurcate, V-shaped (Pont 1986: Fig. 204); trifoliate process with stalk very long and expanded medially, lateral plates without inner lobe; median piece a little expanded at apex (Pont 1972a: Fig. 13; Pont 1986: Fig. 206). Female sternite 6 some 1.5 times as long as broad; tergite 8 and sternite 7 as in Pont (1986: Figs 209–214). See also Pont & Magpayo (1995).
Material examined. BMNH: Vanuatu: Malekula: Ounua, iii–iv.1929, 1 ♀, L.E. Cheesman (Pont 1986: 44). Espiritu Santo: viii–ix.1929, 2 ♂, 1 ♀, L.E. Cheesman (Pont 1986: 44).
BPBM: Vanuatu: Éfaté: Port Vila, 0–100 m, iii.1980, 1 ♂; 0–100 m, i.1976, 3 ♀; 0–200 m, ii.1973, 1 ♀; all N.L.H. Krauss. Epi: Vaemali, 80–150 m, 11–18.viii.1967, 2 ♂, 2 ♀; 150 m, 9–20.viii.1967, 1 ♂; 100–150 m, 6–10.viii.1967, 2 ♀; 100–150 m, 16–21.viii.1967, 1 ♂; all J. & M. Sedlacek.
Comments. The species is widely distributed in the Oriental and Australasian Regions and is one of the most important shoot flies (Pont 1972a). First recorded from Vanuatu by Pont (1986).
Distribution. Australia (NSW, NT, Qld), Belau, Bonin Is, Indonesia (Maluku), Lord Howe I., Micronesia, New Caledonia (New Caledonia), PNG (Bismarck Arch, PNG), Tonga, Vanuatu, Volcano Is, Western Samoa; Oriental Region.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , BPBM , USNM
- Scientific name authorship
- Malloch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Muscidae
- Genus
- Atherigona
- Species
- oryzae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atherigona (Atherigona) oryzae Malloch, 1925 sec. Couri, Pont & Daugeron, 2010
References
- Malloch, J. R. (1925 b) Some Indian species of the dipterous genus Atherigona Rondani. With an appendix by Y. Ramachandra Rao. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, Entomological Series, 8, 111 - 125.
- Malloch, J. R. (1929 a) Muscidae. Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda, 6, 151 - 175.
- Pont, A. C. (1986) Studies on the Australian Muscidae (Diptera). VII. The genus Atherigona Rondani. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 120, 1 - 90.
- Pont, A. C. (1989) 107. Family Muscidae. Pp. 675 - 699. In: Evenhuis, N. L. (ed.), Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Special Publications of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 86, 1155 pp.
- Pont, A. C. (1972 a) A review of the Oriental species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera, Muscidae) of economic importance. Pp. 27 - 102. In: Jotwani, M. G. & Young, W. R. (eds), Control of Sorghum Shoot Fly. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta, India, xv + 324 pp.
- Pont, A. C. & Magpayo, F. R. (1995) Muscid shoot-flies of the Philippine Islands (Diptera: Muscidae, genus Atherigona Rondani). Bulletin of Entomological Research, Supplement Series, 3, 1 - 123.