Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 493 Helina euphemioidea Robineau-Desvoidy Anthomyia pertusa Meigen, 1826 Coquillett (1901: 137) The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503 Couri, Marcia S. Pont, Adrian C. Daugeron, Christophe Zootaxa 2010 2010-06-11 2503 1 1 61 9G2JT Robineau-Desvoidy Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 [238,572,1493,1519] Insecta Muscidae Helina Animalia Diptera 32 33 Arthropoda genus      Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 493. Type-species:  Helina euphemioideaRobineau-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+5and 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  Helinaare recorded from the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, most of them endemic to Australiaor to New Guinea. This is the first record of the genus from New Caledonia.