The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu Author Couri, Marcia S. Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 20.940 - 040. E-mail: mcouri @ terra. com. br Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, U. K. E-mail: pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, UMR 7205, CP 50 - 45 Rue de Buffon, 75005 Paris, France. E-mail: daugeron @ mnhn. fr Author Pont, Adrian C. Author Daugeron, Christophe text Zootaxa 2010 2010-08-02 2556 1 1 39 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2556.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1 1175-5326 5302228 Genus Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy Muscina Robineau –Desvoidy, 1830: 406. Type-species: Musca stabulans Fallén, 1817 , des. Coquillett (1910: 571) . Diagnosis. Male holoptic, eye bare; arista plumose with hairs on basal three-fourths and bare on the apical fourth; female with crossed setae on frontal vitta; anterior postsutural intraalar seta placed posterior to level of supraalar seta; presutural acrostichals developed; prealar seta short, but distinct; anepimeron bare; meron setulose; wing with apical section of vein M slightly curved forward, veins bare; hind tibia with calcar strong, submedian; sternite 1 setulose. Comments. Two species of Muscina were listed from the Australasian/Oceanian Regions by Pont (1989) , and since then Muscina arcuata Shinonaga, 1989 has been described from Bougainville Island. Only M. stabulans has been recorded from Vanuatu .