
Genus Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, new record Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 493. Type-species: Helina euphemioidea Robineau-Desvoidy [= Anthomyia pertusa Meigen, 1826], des. Coquillett (1901: 137). Diagnosis. Male head holoptic or dichoptic; eyes with few hairs; arista plumose; scutum with 4 dark vittae; dorsocentrals 2+3–4; fore tibia without submedian seta; veins R 4+5 and M conspicuously divergent at apex; prosternum and anepimeron bare; wing veins bare; prealar present in male; hind tibia with the calcar absent. Comments. Fifty-two species of Helina are recorded from the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, most of them endemic to Australia or to New Guinea. This is the first record of the genus from New Caledonia.
Published as part of Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 2503 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094189
Helina, Insecta, Arthropoda, Diptera, Muscidae, Animalia, Biodiversity, Taxonomy
Helina, Insecta, Arthropoda, Diptera, Muscidae, Animalia, Biodiversity, Taxonomy
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