Graphomya maculata (Scopoli)

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, Zootaxa 2503 (1), pp. 1-61 : 35

21. Graphomya maculata (Scopoli)

Musca maculata Scopoli, 1763: 326 . Syntypes?sex, Slovenia, Idrija [“Carniola”], destroyed.

Graphomya maculata ; Shinonaga et al., 1991: 331.

Diagnosis. Characteristic pattern on scutum different in both sexes. Male: scutum dark brown, including median area, with two silvery-white stripes on dorsocentral rows of setae and two lateral ones; scutellum with a median triangular brown mark, wider at base, with grey pollinose areas laterally; abdomen largely yellow, with brown median brown marks and brown tergite 5. Female: scutum with silver areas more extensive than in male, including median area; abdomen grey with brown median and lateral marks (male and female abdomen respectively as in Figs 3–6 and 8–9 of Marques & Couri, 2007); sternite 5, cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagus in Figs 142–145, and detail of segments 7 and 8 of female ovipositor in Fig. 148 in Vockeroth (1972).

Material examined: MNHN. New Caledonia: Col de Pétchécara : 15 km W. of Thio, 19.ii.1978, S. Shinonaga, 1 ♀, Shinonaga det.

NSMT. New Caledonia: Hienghène : 21–22.ii.1978, S. Shinonaga, 1 ♀ ; H. Shima, 2 ♀.

Comments. The species was first recorded from Col de Pétchécara and Hienghène by Shinonaga et al. (1991) and is known from New Caledonia only from the three females listed above. Not found in the new material that we have examined. See Vockeroth (1972) for full description and discussion.

Distribution. Bonin Is, Indonesia (Western New Guinea,?Malaku), Melanesia, PNG (Bismarck Arch., PNG); Afrotropical, Neotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions.

Figures

FIGURES 1–16. 1–4. Atherigona bidens Hennig, male terminalia. 1. Hypopygial prominence, dorsal view. 2. Male hypopygial prominence, lateral view. 3. Male trifoliate process, posterior view. 4. Male trifoliate process, lateral view. 5– 8. Atherigona oryzae Malloch, male terminal. 5. Hypopygial prominence, dorsal view. 6. Hypopygial prominence, lateral view. 7. Trifoliate process, posterior view. 8. Trifoliate process, lateral view. 9–12. Atherigona simplex (Thomson), male terminalia. 9. Hypopygial prominence, dorsal view. 10. Hypopygial prominence, lateral view. 11. Trifoliate process, posterior view. 12. Trifoliate process, lateral view. 13–16. Atherigona tibiseta Malloch, male terminalia. 13. Hypopygial prominence, dorsal view. 14. Hypopygial prominence, lateral view. 15. Trifoliate process, posterior view. 16. Trifoliate process, lateral view. Scale bar: 0.1mm