Taxonomic review of the genus Pygophora Schiner of Japan (Diptera: Muscidae)
Author
Yoshizawa, Satoshi
Author
Tachi, Takuji
text
Zootaxa
2018
4418
5
449
468
journal article
30105
10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.3
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1175-5326
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Pygophora macularis
(
Wiedemann, 1830
)
(
Figs. 7a–d
,
12
)
Coenosia macularis
Wiedemann, 1830
: 438
.
Holotype
female (
Zoological Museum
,
University of Copenhagen
,
Copenhagen
,
Denmark
).
Type
locality:
E. Indies.
Diplogaster nigricauda
Bigot, 1886
: 14
.
Redescription.
Male.
Differing from
P. boninensis
as follows: abdominal sternite 5 broad posteriorly in ventral view; surstylus broad and nearly straight in dorsal view; phallus nearly straight apically.
Female.
Differing from male as follows: first flagellomere shorter than in male, approximately 2.8 times as long as pedicel; wing without brown spot; hind tibia without posteroventral seta and apical lobe; abdominal tergite 3 with three black spots; abdominal tergite 5 without dorsal keel.
Female terminalia
. Very similar to
P. boninensis
.
Body length
. 5.5–7.0 mm.
Material examined.
JAPAN
:
1 male
(BLKU),
Mt. Hôkyô
,
Tsukuba
city,
Ibaraki
pref.,
6. VIII. 2013
;
1 male
(EUM),
Yorii
town,
Ôsato-gun
,
Saitama
pref.,
24. VI–2. VII. 2007
;
1 male
(BLKU),
Tatsugaya
,
Ogose
town,
Iruma-gun
,
Saitama
pref.,
11. II. 2012
;
1 male
(EUM),
Imperial Palace
,
Tokyo
,
14. III. 2002
;
1 female
(BLKU),
Mt. Futagoyama
,
Zushi
city,
Kanagawa
pref.,
19. X. 2008
;
1 male
(BLKU),
Kashihara
,
Fukuoka
city,
Fukuoka
pref.,
6. IV. 1996
;
1 female
(BLKU),
Onoaida
,
Yakushima
town,
Yakushima Is
., Kumage-gun,
Kagoshima
pref. [
N 30°14’39”
/
E 130°33’30”
],
9. III. 2013
;
3 males
and
3 females
(BLKU),
Gusuku
,
Sumiyo town, Amami city
,
Kagoshima
pref., 1, 3,
5. VII. 2013
.
THAILAND
:
2 females
(EUM),
Khao Yai
30 Km, S. of Pak Chong
,
25–26. XII. 1975
.
INDONESIA
:
1 male
(EUM),
Noongan
50 Km S. of Menado
,
2–10. XII. 1973
.
Distribution.
Japan
(Honshu, Kyushu),
China
,
Taiwan
,
India
,
Indonesia
,
Myanmar
,
Pakistan
,
Sri
Lanka
,
Thailand
.
Bionomics.
This was found and collected by the first author in a forest.
Remarks.
This species resembles
Pygophora boninensis
and
P. maculipennis
Stein
, and it is distinguished from them only by the following male morphological characters: hind tibia with 1 posteroventral seta, and surstylus broad in dorsal view. This is the first record of the species from
Japan
.