Pygophora maculipennis Stein, 1909

Yoshizawa, Satoshi & Tachi, Takuji, 2018, Taxonomic review of the genus Pygophora Schiner of Japan (Diptera: Muscidae), Zootaxa 4418 (5), pp. 449-468 : 460

Pygophora maculipennis Stein, 1909

( Figs. 8a–d , 12 )

Pygophora maculipennis Stein, 1909: 271 . Lectotype male (Zoological Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands), by designation of Crosskey (1962: 428). Type locality: Krakatau Islands, Indonesia.

Redescription. Male. Differing from P. boninensis as follows: vertex approximately 1/5 of head width; hind tibia with 3–4 posteroventral setae; abdominal sternite 5 broad posteriorly in ventral view; surstylus broad and nearly straight in dorsal view; cerci round apically in dorsal view.

Female. Unknown.

Body length. 5.3–5.7 mm.

Material examined. JAPAN: 1 male (NIAES), Kabira , Ishigaki city, Ishigakijima Is., Okinawa pref., 12. II. 1953 ; 1 male (NIAES), Sonai , Taketomi town, Iriomotejima Is., Yaeyama-gun, Okinawa pref., 29. XII. 1952 ; 1 male (EUM), Ôhara , Taketomi town, Yaeyama-gun, Iriomotejima Is., Okinawa pref., 2. V. 1990 . THAILAND: 3 males (EUM), Khao Yai 30 Km, S. of Pak Chong, 24–26. XII. 1975 .

Distribution. Japan (Honshu, Ryukyu), China, Taiwan, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand.

Bionomics. Unknown.

Remarks. This species resembles Pygophora boninensis and P. macularis , but it is distinguished from them by having 3–4 posteroventral setae on the hind tibia in male.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Pygophora maculipennis Stein, male sternite 5 andterminalia: a. Male sternite 5 in ventral view (setae omitted on the left side). b. Hypandrium, pregonite, postgonite, and phallus in lateral view. c. Epandrium, surstylus, and cerci in lateral view.d. Same in dorsal view (setae omitted on the left side) (Scale bars = 0.2 mm).

FIGURE 12. Distribution map for Pygophora spp. in Japan:P.boninensis Snyder (black star); P.confusa Stein (white star); P. immaculipennis Frey (black circle); P. lepidofera (Stein) (white circle); P. longicornis (Stein) (black triangle); P. macularis (Wiedemann) (white triangle); P. maculipennis Stein (black square); P. respondens (Walker) (white square); P.unicolor (Stein) (black hexagon).