Macaronesian Muscidae (Diptera). V. The genera Phaonia Robineau-Desvoidy and Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy Author Michelsen, Verner Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Author Pont, Adrian C. 0000-0003-4541-9182 text Zootaxa 2024 2024-05-30 5458 4 581 596 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.6 journal article 298625 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.6 6d35be3f-813a-4749-900a-caea6b70a980 1175-5326 11548064 72DE7B50-ABD3-4C4F-83B1-ADCAA4A1ABEA Genus Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy Diagnosis. Easily separated from other local genera of Muscidae by the following combination of characters: Robust, dark-bodied muscid flies; tip of scutellum reddish to yellow; arista plumose; anepimeron bare; vein M1+2 curved forward distally. See Vikhrev & Esin (2013) for a revision of the Palaearctic species with richly illustrated descriptions of the species treated below. The cosmotropical and widespread Macaronesian muscid Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Wulp) resembles a species of Muscina , but has a practically bare antennal arista.