Musca ventrosa Wiedemann, 1830

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, Zootaxa 2503 (1), pp. 1-61 : 21-22

9. Musca ventrosa Wiedemann , new record

Musca ventrosa Wiedemann, 1830: 656 . Lectotype male, China, in NMW, des. Pont (1973a: 164).

Diagnosis. Fronto-orbital plates in both sexes silver to greyish pollinose; palpus dark, cylindrical in male, a little enlarged and flattened in female; scutum bluish with grey pollinosity, two very narrow black presutural vittae; legs black; abdomen entirely orange-yellow; sternite 1 bare.

Male hypopygium as in Figs 24 , 29 and 34 ; male aedeagus with the postgonite minute; praegonite without setae ( Fig. 39 ); epiphallus well developed, rounded at tip (Fig. 44); female ovipositor long as in Figs 57 and 58 (all Figs in Pont, 1973a).

Material examined: BPBM: New Caledonia: 7.iv.1945, 1 ♀, H.E. Milliron. La Crouen : 12.iii.1961, 2 ♂, J. Sedlacek. Nouméa: 20.ii.1963, 1 ♂, light trap, C.M. Yoshimoto & N.L.H. Krauss.

Comments. This is the first record of the species in New Caledonia. Redescription, comments on types, synonymies, details on geographical records and biology in Pont (1973a) .

Distribution. Australia (NT, Qld, WA), Indonesia (Western New Guinea, Maluku), New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), PNG ( PNG), Solomon Is; Afrotropical and Oriental Regions.

Figures

FIGURES 17–26. Dichaetomyia shinonagai, sp. nov. 17–20. Male terminalia. 17. Sternite 5. 18. Cercal plate and surstylus, dorsal view. 19. Cercal plate and surstylus, lateral view. 20. Aedeagus, lateral view. 21–22. Female. 21. Ovipositor, dorsal view. 22. Ovipositor, ventral view and spermathecae. 23–26. Larva. 23. Anterior segments. 24. Posterior segments. 25. Cephalopharyngeal skeleton. 26. Posterior spiracle.

FIGURES 27–34. 27–33. Helina flavoextrema, sp. nov. 27–30. Male terminalia. 27. Sternite 5. 28. Cercal plate and surstylus, dorsal view. 29. Cercal plate and surstylus, lateral view. 30. Aedeagus, lateral view. 31–33. Female. 31. Ovipositor, dorsal view. 32. Ovipositor, ventral view and spermathecae. 33. Egg, lateral view. 34. Limnophora longiantennata, sp. nov., ovipositor, lateral view and spermatheca.

FIGURES 35–40. 35–37. Pygophora caledonica (Bigot). Male terminalia. 35. Abdomen, lateral view. 36. Sternite 5, dorsal view. 37. Aedeagus, lateral view. 38–40. Pygophora spinifera, sp. nov., male terminalia. 38. Sternite 5, dorsal view. 39. Lobe of sternite 5, lateral view. 40. Aedeagus, lateral view.