Musca vetustissima Walker, 1849

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

10. Musca vetustissima Walker , new record

Musca vetustissima Walker, 1849: 902 . Holotype female, “ New Holland ” [ Australia], in BMNH ( Pont, 1973b: 148).

Diagnosis. Fronto-orbital plates in both sexes silver to greyish pollinose; palpus dark, cylindrical at tip; proepisternal depression bare; scutum with the two black vittae on each side separated before suture and fused behind it, the scutum thus appearing bivittate after suture; sternite 1 bare; male syntergite 1+2 entirely black. Male hypopygium as in Figs 23 , 28 and 33 ; male aedeagus with the postgonite minute; praegonite with 1 seta; epiphallus well developed, forked at tip (Fig. 43); female ovipositor long as in Figs 55 and 56 (all Figs in Pont, 1973a).

Material examined: BPBM: New Caledonia: Forêt de Thi : 100–200 m, 9.iii.1961, 1 ♂, M. Sedlacek. Plaine des Lacs : 30.x.1958, 1 ♂; 6.xi.1958, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Yahoue: 2.iii.1978, 1 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss. Yaté: 30.x.1958, 2 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Isle of Pines : 23.x.1940, 1 ♀; 24.x.1940, 3 ♀, F.X. Williams. Loyalty Islands: Lifou: We , 30–31.i.1962, 2 ♂, N.L.H. Krauss; 16–18.ii.1963, 2 ♂, C.M. Yoshimoto.

Comments. This is the first record of this species, the common “bush fly” of Australia, in New Caledonia. Redescription, comments on types, synonymies, details on geographic records and biology in Pont (1973a) .

Distribution. Widespread, Indonesia and Australia to Hawai‘ian Is, New Caledonia ( New Caledonia, Isle of Pines, Loyalty Is).

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.