The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503 Author Couri, Marcia S. Author Pont, Adrian C. Author Daugeron, Christophe text Zootaxa 2010 2010-06-11 2503 1 1 61 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2503.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1 1175­5334 23. Myospila propinqua (Stein) Spilogaster propinqua Stein, 1900a . Holotype male, Maluku , Indonesia , in MCSNG ( Pont, 1966: 100 ). Diagnosis. Width of eyes in male intermediate, frons broadening towards lunule; antenna with pedicel yellow and postpedicel dark brown; scutum brown, light-grey pollinose; two brown stripes along dorsocentral line; anterior spiracle yellow; upper posterior katepisternal very long; scutellum yellow on apical third; calypters and halter yellow; femora brown at apex, tibiae and tarsi yellow; wing slightly yellowish, more intense on anterior half; abdomen grey with round brown marks on all tergites; male surstylus and cercal plate as in Figs 112 and 113 and female ovipositor as in Fig. 123 of Vockeroth (1972) . Material examined: NSMT . New Caledonia : Hienghène : 21–22.ii.1978 , S. Shinonaga , 2 ♂ , Shinonaga det. BMNH . New Caledonia : Thio : 50 km E of Nouméa , 18.ii.1958 , 1 ♂ , H. Shima. Tinchialit : 2020 ft , 22.viii– 10.ix.1949 , 1 ♂ , L.E. Cheesman . Comments. Two males in NSMT were identified by S. Shinonaga in 1981, but the species was not listed in Shinonaga et al . (1991) , who only recorded a “ Myospila sp. ”. Pont (1966) referred this species to Helina subgenus Helinella Malloch , a group that was synonymised by Vockeroth (1972) with Myospila . See Vockeroth (1972) for full description and discussion of this genus and species. The Myospila sp. mentioned by Shinonaga et al . (1991) from Thio ( 50 km E of Nouméa, 19.ii.1978 , S. Shinonaga) is probably the female of M. propinqua . Distribution. Indonesia ( Maluku ), New Caledonia ( New Caledonia ), PNG ( PNG ), Rennell I., Solomon Is, Vanuatu .