Myiophaea Enderlein, 1935
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Myiophaea Enderlein, 1935 View in CoL View at ENA
Myiophaea Enderlein, 1935: 240 View in CoL . Type species: Myiophaea ralumensis Enderlein, 1935 View in CoL [= Bengalia spissa Walker, 1858 ].
Diagnosis. Colouration yellowish-brown; abdomen dark-brown but lighter on laterals and on fifth tergite; thorax and abdomen with golden pruinosity; wing without maculae, but the membrane tinged with yellow, especially the base and along the anterior margin. Female with proclinate fronto-orbital; parafrons setulose on upper half; interfrontal seta absent. Presutural acrostichals undeveloped; one postsutural pair. Dorsocentrals 2+5. Posthumeral present; parahumeral absent; postsutural intra-alars 1; intrapostalar present. Prosternum bare. Katepisternals 1+2. Meron bare. Wing with the basal portion of stem-vein setulose ventrally; apical portion of stem-vein bare; R1, Rs node and R4+5 setulose dorsally and ventrally; M bent forward towards R4+5. Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly, but not extending below base of scutellum ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 12 – 14 ). Subcostal sclerite setulose ventrally. Calcar weak.
Comments. This is the only yellowish-brown taxon within the Australasian Muscini fauna (although some specimens may have a more blackish colour on thorax; Pont 1967); the other representatives possess a metallic or dull colouration.
Distribution (1 species). Australasian (Papuan subregion).
References. Pont (1967, 1973).
Enderlein, G. (1935) Dipterologica. III. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der naturforschenden Freunde zu Berlin, 1935, 235 - 246.
Pont, A. C. (1967) Some Muscidae (Diptera) from the Philippine Islands and the Bismarck Archipelago. 1. The genus Myiophaea Enderlein. Entomologiske Meddelelser, 35, 105 - 124.
Pont, A. C. (1973) Studies on Australian Muscidae (Diptera). IV. A revision of the subfamilies Muscinae and Stomoxyinae. Australian Journal of Zoology (Supplementary Series), 21, 129 - 296.
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Myiophaea Enderlein, 1935
Nihei, Silvio Shigueo & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De 2009 |
Myiophaea
Enderlein 1935: 240 |
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