Passeromyia steini Pont, 1970

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 16

13. Passeromyia steini Pont

Muscina longicornis Stein, 1909: 221 (junior secondary homonym, preocc. in Passeromyia by Cyrtonevra longicornis Macquart, 1851 ). Lectotype female, Batavia [= Jakarta], Java, in ZMAN, des. Pont (1970b).

Passeromyia steini Pont, 1970b: 92 (replacement name for Muscina longicornis Stein ).

Passeromyia steini ; Pont, 1989: 676.

Diagnosis. Eyes with very short sparse hairs; palpus black; fronto-orbital plate with numerous dense fine hairs and setulae from vertex to lunule; scape and pedicel reddish, postpedicel dark brown, reddish at base; gena broad; postpedicel long, about 5 times as long as pedicel; meron with long hairs; 2 intraalar setae; legs dark brown; postalar declivity bare; wing membrane uniformly covered with microtrichia; halter yellow; postalar wall bare; hind tibia without a posterodorsal seta; male with sternite 2 covered with very dense short fine setae.

Material examined. MNHN: Vanuatu: Tanna: 2 ♂, E. Aubert de la Rüe .

Comments. Redescribed by Pont (1974), who recorded it for the first time from Vanuatu (as New Hebrides), based on the two males from Tanna in MNHN .

Distribution. Australia (excluding Tas), Indonesia (West Papua, Maluku), Vanuatu; Oriental Region.