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Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Description

Genus Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy

Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 406. Type-species: Musca stabulans Fallén, 1817, des. Coquillett (1910: 571).

Diagnosis. Male holoptic, eye bare; arista plumose with hairs on basal three-fourths and bare on the apical fourth; female with crossed setae on frontal vitta; presutural acrostichals developed; prealar seta short, but distinct; anepimeron bare; meron setulose; wing with apical section of vein M slightly curved forward, veins bare; hind tibia with calcar strong, submedian; sternite 1 setulose.

Comments. Two species of Muscina are known to occur in the Australasian/Oceanian Regions (Pont, 1989) and only M. stabulans has been recorded from New Caledonia.

Notes

Published as part of Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 2503 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094189

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Muscidae
Genus
Muscina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Robineau-Desvoidy
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 sec. Couri, Pont & Daugeron, 2010

References

  • Robineau-Desvoidy, A. J. B. (1830) Essai sur les Myodaires. Memoires presentes par divers Savants a l'Academie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, 2, 1 - 813.
  • Fallen, C. F. (1817) Beskrifning Ofver de i Sverige funna Fluge Arter, som kunna foras till Slagtet Musca. Forsta Afdelnin- gen. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, [3], 1816, 226 - 254.
  • Coquillett, D. W. (1910) The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 37, 499 - 647.
  • 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.