Morinia Robineau-Desvoidy.

Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Stireman III, John O., Badano, Davide, Gisondi, Silvia, Rognes, Knut, Giudice, Giuseppe Lo & Pape, Thomas, 2019, Reclustering the cluster flies (Diptera: Oestroidea, Polleniidae), Systematic Entomology 44, pp. 957-972 : 964

Genus Morinia Robineau-Desvoidy.

Morinia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 264 . Type species: Morinia velox Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (= Musca doronici Scopoli, 1763 ), by subsequent designation ( Rondani, 1862: 159).

Diagnosis. Small to medium-sized, relatively slender flies, black in ground colour, rarely with metallic bronze reflections ( Fig. 4A ) or evenly covered with grey microtomentum ( Fig. 2 ). Outer posthumeral seta and presutural intra-alar setae absent. Metathoracic spiracle small and circular; anterior and posterior lappets of metathoracic spiracle subequal in size (posterior lappet slightly larger) and more or less outwardly directed. Lower calypter narrow (i.e. tongue-shaped as in Rhinophorids) and diverging from scutellum. Node at base of R 4+5 bare. Bend of vein M obtuse [vein M 1 vanishing in the membrane in M. lactineala (Pape) ]. Hind tibia with equally strong dorsal, anterodorsal and posterodorsal preapical setae.

New combinations.

Morinia carinata ( Pape, 1987) (Phyto) comb.n. Formerly in Rhinophoridae .

Morinia lactineala ( Pape, 1997) (Phyto) comb.n. Formerly in Rhinophoridae .

Morinia longirostris ( Crosskey, 1977) (Phyto) comb.n. Formerly in Rhinophoridae .

Morinia royi ( Pape, 1997) (Phyto) comb.n. Formerly in Rhinophoridae .

Morinia stuckenbergi ( Crosskey, 1977: 44) (Phyto) comb.n. Formerly in Rhinophoridae .

Figures

Fig. 4. Morinia tsitsikamma sp.n. (A) Habitus in lateral view, holotype 05392, male; (B) head in lateral view, holotype 05392, male; (C) head in frontolateral view, male paratype 05403, head; (D) head in frontal view, male paratype 05403; (E) lunule in frontal view, male paratype 05383 (scale 100 μm); (F) head in frontal view, female paratype 05404; (G) lunule in frontal view, female paratype 0540 (scale 100 μm). [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com].

Fig. 2. Female habitus of Morinia sp. (undescribed species of the carinata-group) (Polleniidae), South Africa, Western Cape Province, West Coast National Park. [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com].