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Synthesiomyia nudiseta

  • 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

14. Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Wulp)

Cyrtoneura nudiseta Wulp, 1883: 42. Holotype female, Argentina, in ZMAN (seen).

Synthesiomyia nudiseta; Pont, 1989: 676.

Diagnosis. A large species, easily distinguished by the orange-red antenna, bare arista, and orange-red tip of abdominal tergite 5.

Material examined. BMNH: Vanuatu: Aneityum: Red Crest, 1200 feet, 3 miles NE of Anelgauhat, vi.1955, 1 ♂, L.E. Cheesman. Éfaté: Port Vila [as Sandwich Island, Vila], 25.xii.1922, 1 ♂, T.T. Barnard.

BPBM: Vanuatu: Malekula: Lamap, 19–21.ix.1967, 1 ♀; 25.ix.1967, 1 ♀; 8–21.ix.1967, 1 ♀, J. & M. Sedlacek.

Comments. This species was first recorded from Vanuatu by Pont (1989) on the basis of the BMNH specimens listed above.

Distribution. Australia (NSW, Qld), Bonin Is, Easter I., Fiji, French Polynesia (Marquesas, Society Is), Guam, Hawai‘ian Is, Lord Howe I., Norfolk I., PNG (PNG), New Caledonia (New Caledonia), Tonga, Vanuatu, Wake I., Western Samoa; tropicopolitan.

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 pages 16-17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5302228

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , BPBM , ZMAN
Event date
1922-12-25 , 1967-09-19 , 1967-09-25
Verbatim event date
1922-12-25 , 1967-09-19/21
Scientific name authorship
Wulp
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Synthesiomyia
Species
nudiseta
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Wulp, 1883) sec. Couri, Pont & Daugeron, 2010

References

  • Wulp, F. M. van der (1883) Amerikaansche Diptera. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 26, 1 - 60.
  • 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.