Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Author
Couri, Márcia
courimarcia@gmail.
Author
Pont, Adrian
Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, United Kingdom. pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com
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Zoologia
2020
e 46879
2020-08-28
37
1
57
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
journal article
10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
1984-4689
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Heliographa aurantiaca
(
Stein, 1915
)
Figs 17–20
Syntype
. Male.
New Britain
,
Deslacs Island
.
Diagnosis. Length of body.
5.5 mm
(male). Head. Antenna and arista dark brown; arista short pubescent. Palpus yellow on basal half and brown on apical half. Thorax. Ground-colour of scutum brown with a grey-white pruinose transverse band presuturally and before scutellum, the presutural one extending laterally to notopleuron and interrupted in the middle by a brown area. Anepisternum white-grey dusted on longitudinal posterior half. Prosternum setulose. Anterior spiracle dark brown. Meron bare. Scutellum with lateral margins bare. Wing. R 4+5 with 1 setula at base in both surfaces. Abdomen. Ground-colour orange-yellow, with a median white-dusted vitta. Sternite 1 setulose.
Remarks.
Shinonaga and Pont (1988)
redescribed this species and gave a key for the identification of the Melanesian species of
Heliographa
which includes
H. aurantiaca
.