Metopina ventralis Schmitz

Disney, Henry L., 2008, Review of Oriental Metopina Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 1937, pp. 23-38 : 37

Metopina ventralis Schmitz

( Figs 30–32 )

Metopina ventralis Schmitz, 1927: 245

Material. 1 female, 1 male, Indonesia, Sulawesi-Utara, Dumoga-Bone National Park, edge of Toraut Forest, Malaise trap, 24 February–2 March 1985, R. H. L. Disney ( UCZM, 16-17); 2 males, Dumoga irrigation project, Toraut, rice paddy, Malaise trap, 10–19 August 1985, A. Kirk-Spriggs (National Museum of Wales, 19-92); 1 female, Lake Mala, 0o44’N, 124o27’E, 1080 m, 10–12 September 1985, A. Kirk-Spriggs (National Museum of Wales, 19-87). 1 female, Malaysia, Sabah, Tawau, Maliau Basin, tributary of Maliau River, 0 4o 44’32.1”N, 116o58’14.5”E, 220 m, Malaise trap, 11–15 December 2007, B. Viklund & N Jönsson ((Swedish Museum of Natural History, 20-15). Also occurs in the Afrotropical and Australasian Regions.

Unidentified males

The following males not yet associated with their females are deposited in Cambridge Museum of Zoology ( UCZM). One species from Java, one from Penang, two from the Philippines and five from Sulawesi.

Figures

FIGURES 30 – 32. Metopina ventralis: (30) female, abdominal tergites 3 – 6; (31) male, posterior face of hind trochanter and base of femur; (32) male, abdominal sternites 4 and 5. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.