Pygophora hopkinsi Malloch, 1929

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10538037
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scientific name	Pygophora hopkinsi Malloch
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37. Pygophora hopkinsi Malloch View in CoL , new record

Pygophora hopkinsi Malloch, 1929c: 161 View in CoL . Holotype male, Pago Pago , Tutuila, Samoa, in BMNH.

Diagnosis. Small species; face and fronto-orbital plate yellow pollinose; antenna long, with postpedicel measuring about 4.0 times the length of the pedicel; palpus yellow; male legs entirely yellow, with mid and hind coxae reddish or brown, femora in female blackish brown with yellow tips; male with abdomen compressed laterally; sternite 5 produced dorsally into a prominent keel and with long and flattened setae; lateral lobe of sternite 5 as in Fig 108 and hypopygium as in Fig. 90 of Crosskey (1962).

Discussion. The species is herein recorded for the first time from New Caledonia. For a full redescription see Crosskey (1962).

Material examined: BPBM: New Caledonia: Nouméa : 2.vii.1940, swept off Lantana, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, F.X. Williams ( MNRJ) . Anse Vata : 25.x.1958, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce .

Distribution. American Samoa, Australia (Qld), PNG (Bismarck Arch.), Rennell I., Solomon Is, Vanuatu, Western Samoa; Oriental Region.