Neomyia Walker, 1859

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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Neomyia Walker, 1859
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Neomyia Walker, 1859 View in CoL View at ENA

Neomyia Walker, 1859: 138 View in CoL (as subgenus of Musca ). Type species: Musca gavisa Walker, 1859 .

Diagnosis. Colouration metallic blue, purple to green, wing without maculae (except for some Afrotropical species). Male with anterointernal ommatidia normally developed (except for some Afrotropical species, with strongly enlarged ommatidia). Female with proclinate fronto-orbital developed or not; parafrons setulose along its entire length; interfrontal seta absent. Dorsocentrals 0-2+2-4. Posthumeral developed or not; intrapostalar usually present. Prosternum setulose. Katepisternals 1+2 or 1+3 (rarely 0+1). Greater ampulla setulose ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 9 – 11. 9 ). Anatergite usually setulose below lower calypter. Anterior suprasquamal ridge setulose or not; posterior suprasquamal ridge always setulose ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 12 – 14 ). Wing with the basal portion of stem-vein with a curved posterior setulae at the basal third of dorsal surface; apical portion of stem-vein setulose ventrally; Rs node and R4+5 setulose dorsally and ventrally; M bent forward towards R4+5. Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly, extending under base of scutellum ( Figs. 10 View FIGURES 9 – 11. 9 , 14 View FIGURES 12 – 14 ). Subcostal sclerite setulose ventrally. Accessory sclerite (at the base of upper calypter) setulose ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 9 – 11. 9 ). Mid tibia with a strong submedian seta on ventral to posteroventral surface. Hind coxa usually setulose on posterior surface. Calcar absent, weak or strong.

Distribution (75 species). Afrotropical, Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic.

References. Afrotropical species: Snyder (1951), Peris (1967), Zielke (1971), Couri et al. (2006); Australasian: Pont (1973); Nearctic: Huckett (1965); Neotropical: de Carvalho and Couri (2002); Oriental: Emden (1965), Xue and Chao (1998), Shinonaga and Thinh (1999); Palaearctic: Hennig (1963b), Zimin and Elberg (1988), Pont (1991), Xue and Chao (1998), Gregor et al. (2002), Shinonaga (2003).

Couri, M. S., Pont, A. C. & Penny, N. D. (2006) Muscidae (Diptera) from Madagascar: identification keys, descriptions of new species, and new records. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 57, 799 - 923.

Gregor, F., Rozkosny, R., Bartak, M. & Vanhara, J. (2002) The Muscidae (Diptera) of Central Europe. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis (Biologia), 107, 1 - 280.

de Carvalho, C. J. B. & Couri, M. S. (2002) Part I. Basal groups. In: de Carvalho, C. J. B. (Ed.), Muscidae (Diptera) of the Neotropical Region: taxonomy. Editora Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, pp. 17 - 132.

Emden, F. I. van (1965) Diptera. Vol. 7. Muscidae, Part 1. In: Sewell, R. B. S. & Roonwal, M. L. (Eds), The Fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 647 pp.

Hennig, W. (1963 b) 63 b. Muscidae. Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region, 7 (Lieferung 242), 913 - 960.

Huckett, H. C. (1965) The Muscidae of Northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Diptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 42, 1 - 370.

Peris, S. V. (1967) Los Muscini de la Guinea Espanola. Claves para la identificacion y notas sobre las especies etiopicas (Diptera, Muscidae). Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural (Seccion Biologica), 65, 21 - 64.

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.

Pont, A. C. (1991) A review of the Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 12, 312 - 365.

Shinonaga, S. & Thinh, T. H. (1999) Muscidae of Vietnam. 1. Muscinae. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 5, 273 - 289.

Shinonaga, S. (2003) A monograph of the Muscidae of Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 347 pp.

Snyder, F. M. (1951) Some old and new species of Muscinae from the Ethiopian Region (Diptera, Muscidae). American Museum Novitates, 1533, 1 - 42.

Walker, F. (1859) Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Makessar in Celebes, by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. [part] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 4, 97 - 144.

Xue, W. & Chao, C., eds. (1998) Flies of China. Vol. 1. Liaoning Science and Technology Press, Shenyang, 1365 pp.

Zielke, E. (1971) Revision der Muscinae der athiopischen Region. Series Entomologica, 7, 1 - 199.

Zimin, L. S. & Elberg, K. Y. (1988) Family Muscidae. In: Bei-Bienko, G. Y. (Ed.), Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Volume 5: Diptera and Siphonaptera. Part 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries & National Science Foundation, Washington DC, pp. 839 - 974.

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FIGURES 9 – 11. 9. Schematic presentation of Muscidae thorax, dorsal view. 10. Thorax (partial), Neomyia cornicina (Fabricius), lateral view. 11. Wing, Morellia podagrica (Loew). Figures 9 – 11 after Nihei and de Carvalho (2007 a).

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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