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Helina Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Description

Genus Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, new record

Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 493. Type-species: Helina euphemioidea Robineau-Desvoidy [= Anthomyia pertusa Meigen, 1826], des. Coquillett (1901: 137).

Diagnosis. Male head holoptic or dichoptic; eyes with few hairs; arista plumose; scutum with 4 dark vittae; dorsocentrals 2+3–4; fore tibia without submedian seta; veins R 4+5 and M conspicuously divergent at apex; prosternum and anepimeron bare; wing veins bare; prealar present in male; hind tibia with the calcar absent.

Comments. Fifty-two species of Helina are recorded from the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, most of them endemic to Australia or to New Guinea. This is the first record of the genus 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 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094189

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Robineau-Desvoidy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Helina
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Helina 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.
  • Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Funfter Theil. Schultz, Hamm, xii + 412 pp.
  • Coquillett, D. W. (1901) Types of anthomyid genera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 9, 134 - 146.