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Pseudeuxesta prima

Black-wingtip Fly

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Black-wingtip Fly

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: RANGE Indonesia - Samoa - n.Cooks; Hawai‘i

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land

KEY FEATURES: Small black fly to 5mmBL. WINGS clear with 3 dark blotches at tip, centre-front, and at base. FEMALE cream under abdomen and on sides of last segment; long triangular egg-depositor.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Pseudeuxesta prima (Osten Sacken, 1881)
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Diptera; OTITIDAE

More Information

IDENTIFICATION: Small fly, to 5mmBL. HEAD face pale. BODY black. WINGS clear with three dark blotches: at tip; wide bar from centre of fore-edge reaching 50% to rear-edge; and at base of wing. ABDOMEN female cream on underside of belly and on sides of last segment; with a black, long triangular egg-laying device.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Pukapuka: 2 specimens+photo,#PK14, at lamp at Gov.Res. 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID at BPBM as Pseudeuxesta prima.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB04a, zD04a, zM04a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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