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
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4
581
596
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.6
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.6
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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.