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Mesembrina Meigen 1826

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Mesembrina Meigen, 1826

Mesembrina Meigen, 1826: 10. Type species: Musca meridiana Linnaeus, 1758.

Diagnosis. Colouration metallic black; gena and parafacial with dense golden pruinosity; body with dense ground setulosity; basal third of wing and calypters notably yellow (or blackish in M. nigribasis from Costa Rica). Vibrissa developed, although sometimes confused with the developed subvibrissals. Female with proclinate fronto-orbital seta; parafrons densely setulose along its whole length; interfrontal seta absent; frontal vitta densely setulose on upper half or along its whole length. Presutural acrostichals developed or not; 3 postsutural setae. Dorsocentrals 1-3+4-5 (0+ 2 in M. nigribasis). Postsutural intra-alars 2; intrapostalar absent. Notopleurals 2-3 (usually 2 notopleurals but some species with an additional seta posteriorly). Prosternum bare. Anterior katepisternal absent or present. Meron and katepimeron bare. Posterior spiracle bare on posterior margin. Suprasquamal ridge bare. Scutellum half-moon shaped. Wing with the veins bare; costal vein setulose ventrally until Sc; Rs node and R4+5 bare dorsally and ventrally; M bent forward towards R4+5. Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly, extending under base of scutellum. Subcostal sclerite bare. Mid tibia with an anterodorsal submedian seta. Calcar strong.

Comments. Recently, M. nigribasis Kuchta & Savage was described from Costa Rica (referred to as Mesembrina sp. 1 in the cladistic analysis of Nihei and de Carvalho 2007 a). The Holarctic Region was probably the ancestral area of this genus, and the Neotropical and Oriental occurrences are due to subsequent expansion of distribution range followed by local speciations.

Distribution (13 species). Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic.

References. Nearctic species: Huckett (1965), Kuchta & Savage (2008); Oriental: Emden (1965), Xue and Chao (1998), Kuchta & Savage (2008); Palaearctic: Hennig (1963b), Peris and Llorente (1963), Zimin and Elberg (1988), Xue and Chao (1998), Gregor et al. (2002), Shinonaga (2003), Kuchta & Savage (2008); Neotropical: Kuchta & Savage (2008).

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Published as part of Nihei, Silvio Shigueo & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, 2009, The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 1976 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185153

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Biodiversity

Family
Muscidae
Genus
Mesembrina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Meigen
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Mesembrina Meigen, 1826 sec. Nihei & Carvalho, 2009

References

  • Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Funfter Theil. Schultz, Hamm, 412 pp.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 10. Vol. 1. Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm], 824 pp.
  • Nihei, S. S. & de Carvalho, C. J. B. (2007 a) Phylogeny and classification of Muscini (Diptera, Muscidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 149, 493 - 532.
  • Huckett, H. C. (1965) The Muscidae of Northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Diptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 42, 1 - 370.
  • Kuchta, J. S. & Savage, J. (2008) Revision of the New World fauna of Mesembrina Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) with the description of a new neotropical species. Zootaxa, 1689, 29 - 50.
  • Emden, F. I. van (1965) Diptera. Vol. 7. Muscidae, Part 1. In: Sewell, R. B. S. & Roonwal, M. L. (Eds), The Fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 647 pp.
  • Xue, W. & Chao, C., eds. (1998) Flies of China. Vol. 1. Liaoning Science and Technology Press, Shenyang, 1365 pp.
  • Hennig, W. (1963 b) 63 b. Muscidae. Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region, 7 (Lieferung 242), 913 - 960.
  • Peris, S. V. & Llorente, V. (1963) Notas sobre Muscini palearticos y revision de las especies espanolas (Diptera, Muscidae). Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural (Seccion Biologica), 61, 209 - 269.
  • Zimin, L. S. & Elberg, K. Y. (1988) Family Muscidae. In: Bei-Bienko, G. Y. (Ed.), Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Volume 5: Diptera and Siphonaptera. Part 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries & National Science Foundation, Washington DC, pp. 839 - 974.
  • Gregor, F., Rozkosny, R., Bartak, M. & Vanhara, J. (2002) The Muscidae (Diptera) of Central Europe. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis (Biologia), 107, 1 - 280.
  • Shinonaga, S. (2003) A monograph of the Muscidae of Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 347 pp.