Published August 2, 2010 | Version v1

Stomoxys Geoffroy

  • 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

Genus Stomoxys Geoffroy, new record

Stomoxys Geoffroy, 1762: 449, 538. Type-species: Conops calcitrans Linnaeus, 1758, des. I.C.Z.N., Opinion 441 (1957).

Diagnosis. General colour brownish-grey to yellowish-brown; head slightly wider than high; vertex about one-fourth of head width in male and over one-third in female; arista plumose on dorsal side; proboscis long and piercing, non-retractile; palpus slender and short; postpedicel about 2.5 times as long as pedicel; prosternum and proepisternal depression setulose; prealar seta absent; anterior katepisternal absent; vein M conspicuously curved forward towards vein R 4+ 5 in its apical section.

Comments. The genus is here recorded from Vanuatu for the first time. Two species have been recorded from the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, S. calcitrans (Linnaeus) and S. indicus Picard. The Australian Stomoxyini were reviewed by Pont (1973a).

Notes

Published as part of Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 2556 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5302228

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Geoffroy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Stomoxys
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Geoffroy, E. L. (1762) Histoire abregee des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont ranges suivant un ordre methodique. Volume 2. Paris, Durand, 690 pp.
  • 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. (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.