Musca domestica Linnaeus 1758
Description
Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758: 596. Syntypes?sex, “in Europae domibus, etiam America”, not located, not in LSL (see Pont, 1981: 168).
Musca vicina Macquart, 1851: 226. Syntypes 2 males, 1 female, “ Amérique ” (actually Martinique), in MNHNP (seen).
Musca vicina Macquart; Buxton & Hopkins, 1927: 57–58; Williams, 1943: 220.
Musca flavifacies Bigot, 1888: 606. Holotype female, “ Nouvelle-Calédonie ”, in BMNH (Pont, 2000: 13–14).
Musca domestica; Leboeuf, 1914: 177; James, 1947: 140; Pont, 1989: 677; Shinonaga et al., 1991: 330.
Diagnosis. Proepisternal depression with fine hairs; male eyes developed but not touching in middle; frontoorbital plates silver in male and densely golden in female; male abdominal tergite 1+2 yellow, at most with a brown median vitta. Male hypopygium as in Figs 25, 30 and 35; male aedeagus with a small postgonite (Fig 40), praegonite with 1 seta; epiphallus well developed weakly clubbed at tip (Fig. 45); female ovipositor long as in Figs 59 and 60 (all Figs in Pont, 1973a).
Material examined: MNHN: New Caledonia: Nouméa: viii.1955, 4 ♂, 1 ♀, J. Rageau, Shinonaga det.; Anse Vata, vii.1958, 1 ♂, J. Rageau, Shinonaga det.
BMNH: New Caledonia: No data, holotype ♀ of flavifacies, from Bigot Collection. Nouméa: 2.viii.1949, 1 ♂, L.E. Cheesman. Plum: 8.viii.1949, 13 ♂, 9 ♀, L.E. Cheesman. Tontouta: 4.vi.1925, 2 ♂, P.A. Buxton.
BPBM: New Caledonia: 3.ii.1945, 1 ♀, Webb; 9.iv.1970, 2 ♂, S. Keenan, A.N. Gillogly. Forêt de Thi: 29.x–1.xi.1967, 1 ♂, J. & M. Sedlacek. La Foa: 3.ii.1945, 1 ♀, H.E. Milliron. Monts Koghis: 450–600 m, 4– 6.x.1967, 1 ♂; 500 m, 23–27.viii.1967, 1 ♀, J. & M. Sedlacek. Nassirah: 100 m, 20.iii.1968, 1 ♀, T.C. Maa. Nouméa: 7.vii.1945, 1 ♂, H.E. Milliron; vii.1940, 1 ♂, 3 ♀, F.X. Williams; ix.1940, 1 ♀, F.X. Williams; 6.vii, 1 ♂; 9.vii, 2 ♂; 20.ii.1963, 2 ♂, C.M. Yoshimoto; I.F.O., Anse Vata, 1.iv.1958, 1 ♂, 2 ♀; 1.x.1958, 1 ♂, J. Rageau; x.1959, 3 ♂, I.F.O. personnel; 25.x.1958, 2 ♂; 22.x.1958, 1 ♀; 23.xi.1958, 1 ♂; 6.iii.1961, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Ouaco: 20.x.1958, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Oua Tom: 20.ix.1940, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Timbia: 2 km SE Nogue, 0–5 m, 20.ix.1979, 1 ♀, sweeping, W. C. Gagné. Isle of Pines: 24.x.1940, 1 ♂, F.X. Williams. Loyalty Islands: Mare: La Roche, iii.1959, 1 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss; Ouvea: Fayaoue, 0–50 m, xii.1969, 2 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss.
Comments. The synonym flavifacies Bigot was described from New Caledonia, and the holotype was reviewed by Pont (2000). Recorded from Bélep by Leboeuf (1914); from Nouméa and Isle of Pines by Williams (1943); from Nouméa by Shinonaga et al. (1991). Redescription, comments on types, synonymies, details on geographic records and biology in Pont (1973a).
Distribution. Cosmopolitan.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , BPBM , MNHN
- Event date
- 1925-06-04 , 1940-09-20 , 1940-10-24 , 1945-02-03 , 1945-07-07 , 1958-10-01 , 1958-10-20 , 1961-03-06 , 1963-02-20 , 1967-08-23 , 1967-10-29 , 1968-03-20 , 1970-04-09 , 1979-09-20
- Family
- Muscidae
- Genus
- Musca
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- domestica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , syntype
- Verbatim event date
- 1925-06-04/1949-08-08 , 1940-09-20 , 1940-10-24 , 1945-02-03 , 1945-07-07 , 1958-10-01 , 1958-10-20 , 1961-03-06 , 1963-02-20 , 1967-08-23/27 , 1967-10-29/11-01 , 1968-03-20 , 1970-04-09 , 1979-09-20
- Taxonomic concept label
- Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Couri, Pont & Daugeron, 2010
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [= Stockholm], 824 pp.
- Pont, A. C. (1981) The Linnaean species of the families Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae and Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 15, 165 - 175.
- Macquart, P. J. M. (1851) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4. e supplement publie dans les memoires de 1849 [concl.]. Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences, de l ' Agriculture, et des Arts a Lille, 1850, 134 - 294.
- Buxton, P. A. & Hopkins, G. H. E. (1927) Researches in Polynesia and Melanesia. An account of investigations in Samoa, Tonga, the Ellice Group, and the New Hebrides, in 1924, 1925. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Memoir, 1, xi + 260 pp.
- Williams, F. X. (1943) Mosquitoes and some noxious flies that occur in New Caledonia. Hawaiian Planters' Record, 47, 205 - 222.
- Bigot, J. M. F. (1888) Dipteres nouveaux ou peu connus. Muscidi (J. B.). Bulletin de la Societe zoologique de France, 12 [1887], 581 - 617.
- Pont, A. C. (2000) The Muscoidea (Insecta, Diptera) described by J. - M. - F. Bigot. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology, 12, 1 - 40.
- Leboeuf, A. (1914) La lepre en Nouvelle-Caledonie et dependences. Annales d ' Hygiene et Medecine coloniales, 17, 177 - 197.
- James, M. T. (1947) The flies that cause myiasis in man. Miscellaneous Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture, 631, 175 pp.
- 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.
- Shinonaga, S., Kano, R. & Fauran, P. (1991) Muscid flies of New Caledonia, with description of a new species (Diptera, Muscidae). In: Chazeau, J. & Tillier, S. (eds), Zoologia Neocaledonica, Volume 2. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, (A), 149, 329 - 334.
- Pont, A. C. (1973 a) Studies on Australian Muscidae (Diptera). IV. A revision of the subfamilies Muscinae and Stomoxyinae. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 21, 129 - 296.