Musca domestica Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Couri, Marcia S.
name: Pont, Adrian C.
name: Daugeron, Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Musca
Musca domestica

description: 7. Musca domestica Linnaeus   
 Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758: 596. Syntypes?sex, “in Europae domibus, etiam America”, not located, not in LSL (see Pont, 1981: 168).   
 Musca vicina Macquart, 1851: 226. Syntypes 2 males, 1 female, “ Amérique ” (actually Martinique), in MNHNP (seen).   
 Musca vicina Macquart; Buxton & Hopkins, 1927: 57–58; Williams, 1943: 220.   
 Musca flavifacies Bigot, 1888: 606. Holotype female, “ Nouvelle-Calédonie ”, in BMNH (Pont, 2000: 13–14).   
 Musca domestica; Leboeuf, 1914: 177; James, 1947: 140; Pont, 1989: 677; Shinonaga et al., 1991: 330.   
 Diagnosis. Proepisternal depression with fine hairs; male eyes developed but not touching in middle; frontoorbital plates silver in male and densely golden in female; male abdominal tergite 1+2 yellow, at most with a brown median vitta. Male hypopygium as in Figs 25, 30 and 35; male aedeagus with a small postgonite (Fig 40), praegonite with 1 seta; epiphallus well developed weakly clubbed at tip (Fig. 45); female ovipositor long as in Figs 59 and 60 (all Figs in Pont, 1973a).   
 Material examined: MNHN: New Caledonia: Nouméa: viii.1955, 4 ♂, 1 ♀, J. Rageau, Shinonaga det.; Anse Vata, vii.1958, 1 ♂, J. Rageau, Shinonaga det.   
 BMNH: New Caledonia: No data, holotype ♀ of flavifacies, from Bigot Collection. Nouméa: 2.viii.1949, 1 ♂, L.E. Cheesman. Plum: 8.viii.1949, 13 ♂, 9 ♀, L.E. Cheesman. Tontouta: 4.vi.1925, 2 ♂, P.A. Buxton.   
 BPBM: New Caledonia: 3.ii.1945, 1 ♀, Webb; 9.iv.1970, 2 ♂, S. Keenan, A.N. Gillogly. Forêt de Thi: 29.x–1.xi.1967, 1 ♂, J. & M. Sedlacek. La Foa: 3.ii.1945, 1 ♀, H.E. Milliron. Monts Koghis: 450–600 m, 4– 6.x.1967, 1 ♂; 500 m, 23–27.viii.1967, 1 ♀, J. & M. Sedlacek. Nassirah: 100 m, 20.iii.1968, 1 ♀, T.C. Maa. Nouméa: 7.vii.1945, 1 ♂, H.E. Milliron; vii.1940, 1 ♂, 3 ♀, F.X. Williams; ix.1940, 1 ♀, F.X. Williams; 6.vii, 1 ♂; 9.vii, 2 ♂; 20.ii.1963, 2 ♂, C.M. Yoshimoto; I.F.O., Anse Vata, 1.iv.1958, 1 ♂, 2 ♀; 1.x.1958, 1 ♂, J. Rageau; x.1959, 3 ♂, I.F.O. personnel; 25.x.1958, 2 ♂; 22.x.1958, 1 ♀; 23.xi.1958, 1 ♂; 6.iii.1961, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Ouaco: 20.x.1958, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Oua Tom: 20.ix.1940, 1 ♂, C.R. Joyce. Timbia: 2 km SE Nogue, 0–5 m, 20.ix.1979, 1 ♀, sweeping, W. C. Gagné. Isle of Pines: 24.x.1940, 1 ♂, F.X. Williams. Loyalty Islands: Mare: La Roche, iii.1959, 1 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss; Ouvea: Fayaoue, 0–50 m, xii.1969, 2 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss.   
 Comments. The synonym flavifacies Bigot was described from New Caledonia, and the holotype was reviewed by Pont (2000). Recorded from Bélep by Leboeuf (1914); from Nouméa and Isle of Pines by Williams (1943); from Nouméa by Shinonaga et al. (1991). Redescription, comments on types, synonymies, details on geographic records and biology in Pont (1973a).   
 Distribution. Cosmopolitan.
description: 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 pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094189