Heliographa aurantiaca ( Stein, 1915 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 4

Heliographa aurantiaca ( Stein, 1915)

Figs 17–20

Syntype. Male. New Britain, Deslacs Island .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.5 mm (male). Head. Antenna and arista dark brown; arista short pubescent. Palpus yellow on basal half and brown on apical half. Thorax. Ground-colour of scutum brown with a grey-white pruinose transverse band presuturally and before scutellum, the presutural one extending laterally to notopleuron and interrupted in the middle by a brown area. Anepisternum white-grey dusted on longitudinal posterior half. Prosternum setulose. Anterior spiracle dark brown. Meron bare. Scutellum with lateral margins bare. Wing. R 4+5 with 1 setula at base in both surfaces. Abdomen. Ground-colour orange-yellow, with a median white-dusted vitta. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. Shinonaga and Pont (1988) redescribed this species and gave a key for the identification of the Melanesian species of Heliographa which includes H. aurantiaca .