Pygophora unicolor
Creators: name: Yoshizawa, Satoshi
name: Tachi, Takuji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Pygophora
Pygophora unicolor

description: <i>Pygophora unicolor</i> (Stein, 1920) (Figs. 10a–d, 12) <i>Coenosia unicolor</i> Stein, 1920: 64. Holotype female (Zoological Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands). Type locality: Java, Indonesia. <b>Redescription. <i>Male.</i></b> Differing from <i>P. boninensis</i> as follows: <i>Head</i>. Fronto-orbital plate blackish brown; face and parafacial silvery gray; gena brown; frontal vitta black. Antenna blackish yellow except 3rd aristomere brown; palpus and labella blackish yellow. Vertex approximately 1/5 of head width; first flagellomere 4.5–5.0 times as long as pedicel. <i>Thorax</i>. Scutum, postpronotum, scutellum, and pleura black in ground color, with blackish gray pruinosity; anterior and posterior spiracles blackish yellow. <i>Wing</i>. Upper and lower calypters dark yellow. <i>Legs</i>. All coxae blackish gray; all trochanters dark yellow; all femora black on basal 1/2 to 3/4 and creamy yellow apically. Fore tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae; mid tibia with 2–3 posterodorsal setae; hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal and 2 posterodorsal setae. <i>Abdomen</i>. Yellow in ground color with black pruinosity. Abdominal tergite 5 without dorsal keel; sternite 5 broad, bifurcated posteriorly with several setae at middle and apical part in ventral view. <i>Male terminalia.</i> Surstylus slender and hook-like apically with many setae in lateral view, broad and nearly triangular in dorsal view; cerci broad and nearly rectangular with many setae in dorsal view; postgonite slender and curved dorsally at middle; phallus curved dorsally at middle, hook-like apically with large membranous areas laterally. <i>Female.</i> Differing from male as follows: first flagellomere 2.7–3.0 times as long as pedicel; upper and lower calypters brownish yellow; hind tibia with 1 anteroventral seta. <i>Female terminalia.</i> Very similar to <i>P. boninensis</i>. <i>Body length.</i> 4.0– 5.7 mm. <b>Material examined.</b> JAPAN: 2 females, Onoaida, Yakushima town, Yakushima Is., Kumage-gun, Kagoshima pref. [N 30°14’39” / E 130°33’30”], 7–9. III. 2013 (BLKU); 4 males and 3 females, Gusuku, Sumiyo town, Amami city, Kagoshima pref. [N 28°17’50” / E 129°27’31”], 1–5. VII. 2013 (BLKU); 2 males and 1 female, Sedake, Nago city, Okinawa pref. [N 26°33’26” / E 128°3’83”], 24–27. VI. 2013 (BLKU); 1 female, Hama, Kunigami Vil., Kunigami-gun, Okinawa pref. [N 26°42’32” / E 128°10’54”], 22. VI. 2013 (BLKU). <b>Distribution.</b> Japan (Kyushu, Ryukyu), Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia. <b>Bionomics.</b> This species was found and collected by the first author in a forest. <b>Remarks.</b> This species is easily distinguishable from other species by having black body color. This is the first record of the species from Japan.
description: Published as part of <i>Yoshizawa, Satoshi &amp; Tachi, Takuji, 2018, Taxonomic review of the genus Pygophora Schiner of Japan (Diptera: Muscidae), pp. 449-468 in Zootaxa 4418 (5)</i> on page 464, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1244994
description: {"references": ["Stein, P. (1920) Anthomyiden aus Java, Sumatra, Waigeoe und Ceram. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 62, 47 - 86."]}