Myiophaea Enderlein, 1935

Nihei, Silvio Shigueo & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, 2009, The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses, Zootaxa 1976, pp. 1-24 : 17

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185153

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5658511

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scientific name

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.

Gallery Image

FIGURES 12 – 14. Posterolateral portion of thorax and lower calypter: 12. Polietina flavithorax (Stein), dorsolateral view. 13. Myiophaea spissa (Walker), dorsolateral view. 14. Neomyia cornicina, oblique dorsolateral view. All figures on same scale.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Tribe

Muscini