Pygophora maculigera (Stein)

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, Zootaxa 2503 (1), pp. 1-61 : 51

38. Pygophora maculigera (Stein)

Coenosia maculigera Stein, 1920: 85 . Holotype male, Saonek Island, Indonesia, in ZMAN ( Crosskey, 1962: 440)

Pygophora aliena Malloch, 1922: 382 . Holotype male, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia, in BMNH ( Crosskey, 1962: 440).

Pygophora aliena ; Curran, 1929: 7.

Pygophora maculigera ; Pont, 1989: 689.

Diagnosis. Frons deep yellow; fronto-orbital plate deep golden pollinose; antenna with postpedicel about 4.5 times the length of pedicel; palpus yellowish-white, scutum brownish-grey pollinose; legs yellow; wing clear in female, but with a brown spot at apex of vein R 2+ 3 in male. Abdomen in female: syntergite 1+2 yellow, tergites 3–4 with three brown spots, tergite 5 grey, with 2 brown spots. Abdomen in male: syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 yellow, tergites 4 and 5 grey with three brown spots. Abdomen strongly modified in male; compressed laterally; tergite 5 with a median keel, with a tuft of long setae and ventrally with strong black setae on each side (Fig. 47 of Crosskey, 1962).

No material of this species has been seen from New Caledonia.

Comments. Curran (1929) recorded a single male from Mueo, but the record was not accepted by Crosskey (1962) who recognized the species only from the Oriental Region and Melanesia. The species was redescribed by Crosskey (1962). Shinonaga et al. (1991) did not mention this species. Curran’s New Caledonia material has not been found in AMNH.

Distribution. Australia (Queensland), Indonesia (Western New Guinea, Maluku), New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), Norfolk I., PNG (Bismarck Arch., PNG), Solomon Is; Oriental Region.