Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 4: 14 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.4.5
Page range: 374–382
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 3

New African species of Helina Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae)

Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, 20.940–040, RJ, Brazil.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, United Kingdom.
Diptera Muscidae Afrotropical taxonomy new species diversity Angola Kenya Nigeria

Abstract

The study of Afrotropical Muscidae deposited in the Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, United Kingdom, revealed four new species of Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, herein described and illustrated. Helina duocolorata sp. nov. is described from Kenya, Helina longicerca sp. nov. and Helina sexnotata sp. nov. from Nigeria, and Helina mediomaculata sp. nov. from Angola. All types are deposited in the collection of the BMNH. Some corrections are made to the entries under Helina in the Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region (Pont 1980).

 

References

  1. Couri, M.S. & Pont, A.C. (2014) New species of Afrotropical Muscidae (Diptera, Muscoidea). Zootaxa, 3852 (3), 301–320.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3852.3.1

    Couri, M.S., Pont, A.C. & Penny, N.D. (2006) Muscidae (Diptera) from Madagascar: identification keys, descriptions of new species, and new records. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 57 (4), 799–923.

    Couri, M.S., Carvalho, C.J.B. de & Pont, A.C. (2012) Taxonomy of the Muscidae (Diptera) of Namibia: a key to genera, diagnoses, new records and description of a new species. African Invertebrates, 53, 47–67.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5733/afin.053.0103

    Curran, C.H. (1934) African Muscidae I. American Museum Novitates, 738, 1–7.

    Emden, F.I.van. (1951) Muscidae: C. – Scatophaginae, Anthomyiinae, Lispinae, Fanniinae and Phaoninae. In: Ruwenzori Expedition 1934–35. Vol. 2. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 325–710.

    McAlpine, J.F. (1981) Morphology and terminology – adults. In: McAlpine, J.F., Peterson, B.V., Shewell, G.E., Teskey, H.J., Vockeroth, J.R. & Wood, D.M. (Eds.), Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Vol. 1. Monograph 27. Agriculture Canada Research Branch, Ottawa, pp. 9–63.

    Pont, A.C. (1980) Family Muscidae. In: Crosskey, R.W. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 721–761.

    Stein, P. (1913) Neue afrikanische Anthomyiden. Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici, 11, 457–583.

    Stuckenberg, B.R. (1999) Antennal evolution in the Brachycera (Diptera), with a reassessment of terminology relating to the flagellum. Studia dipterologica, 6, 33–48.