Morellia Nihei & Carvalho, 2009, s.s.

• Main Authors: Nihei, Silvio Shigueo, Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Muscidae; Morellia; Canada; Greenland; Seta; Barros; Llorente; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5658499; https://zenodo.org/record/5658499

Subgenus Morellia s.s. Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 405 (as genus). Type species: Morellia agilis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Musca hortorum Fallén, 1817]. Diagnosis. Colouration metallic bluish-black to violaceous; wing without maculae, but with maculae in several Neotropical species. Female with proclinate fronto-orbital usually developed; parafrons setulose on upper half; interfrontal seta absent. Postsutural intra-alars 1; intrapostalar present. Prosternum setulose or bare. Katepisternals 1 + 2. Wing with the basal portion of stem-vein setulose ventrally (bare in basalis -group); R 4 + 5 setulose dorsally and ventrally; M bent forward towards R 4 + 5 (Fig. 11). Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly, extending under base of scutellum. Subcostal sclerite bare. Male mid femur of some species with a dorsal preapical protuberance bearing a dense set of setulae (Fig. 18). Calcar weak or strong. Comments. The monophyly of Morellia s.s. was not supported by Nihei and de Carvalho (2007 a). A comprehensive phylogenetic study of Morellia s.l. is required to clarify the composition of Morellia s.s., as well as its relationship with other subgenera. Note on basalis -group: This species-group was indicated as monophyletic by Nihei and de Carvalho (2007 a) and is composed so far of two Neotropical species, namely, M. basalis (Walker) and M. paulistensis Pamplona & Mendes. Distribution (50 species). Afrotropical, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic References. Afrotropical species: Peris (1961), Zielke (1971), Couri et al. (2006); Australasian: Pont (1973); Nearctic: Huckett (1965); Neotropical: Pamplona and Couri (1995), de Carvalho and Couri (2002); Oriental: Emden (1965), Xue and Chao (1998); Palaearctic: Zimin (1951), Hennig (1964 a), Peris and Llorente (1963), Zimin and Elberg (1988), Xue and Chao (1998), Gregor et al. 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