Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, Zootaxa 2503 (1), pp. 1-61 : 33

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10537993

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4947D67F-3374-FF9E-FF55-33E9FADE395D

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scientific name

Helina Robineau-Desvoidy
status

 

Genus Helina Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL , new record

Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 493 View in CoL . Type-species: Helina euphemioidea Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL [= Anthomyia pertusa Meigen, 1826 ], des. Coquillett (1901: 137).

Diagnosis. Male head holoptic or dichoptic; eyes with few hairs; arista plumose; scutum with 4 dark vittae; dorsocentrals 2+3–4; fore tibia without submedian seta; veins R 4+5 and M conspicuously divergent at apex; prosternum and anepimeron bare; wing veins bare; prealar present in male; hind tibia with the calcar absent.

Comments. Fifty-two species of Helina are recorded from the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, most of them endemic to Australia or to New Guinea. This is the first record of the genus from New Caledonia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Loc

Helina Robineau-Desvoidy

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe 2010
2010
Loc

Helina

Coquillett, D. W. 1901: 137
Robineau-Desvoidy, A. J. B. 1830: 493
1830
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