The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses
Author
Nihei, Silvio Shigueo
Author
Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De
text
Zootaxa
2009
1976
1
24
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185153
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1175-5326
185153
Subgenus
Eudasyphora
Townsend, 1911
Eudasyphora
Townsend, 1911
: 170
(as genus).
Type
species:
Lucilia lasiophthalma
Macquart, 1834
[=
Musca cyanella
Meigen, 1826
].
Diagnosis.
Colouration metallic purplish-blue to greenish-blue with silver pruinosity; wing at most with a macula on humeral vein. Female with the parafrons weakly setulose on upper half. Dorsocentrals 3+4. Prosternum bare. Wing with basal portion of stem-vein bare dorsally. First abdominal sternite widely setulose or with setulae only on lateral margins.
Comments.
Nihei and de
Carvalho (2007a)
did not support the monophyly of
Eudasyphora
, as
Dasyphora
s.s.
is nested within
Eudasyphora
. Further studies are needed to verify this condition in order to preserve this subgenus or to merge it with
Dasyphora
s.s.
Distribution
(10 species). Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic.
References.
Nearctic species:
Cuny (1980)
; Oriental:
Emden (1965)
,
Cuny (1980)
,
Xue and Chao (1998)
; Palaearctic:
Hennig (1963b
,
1964a
),
Peris and Llorente (1963)
,
Cuny (1980)
,
Gregor et al. (2002)
,
Shinonaga (2003)
.