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Homoneura hawaiiensis

Grey-thorax Fly

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Grey-thorax Fly

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: RANGE Samoa - Pitcairn; Hawai‘i.

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native, Endemic of Polynesia; S.Group - present; N.Group - present; Land

KEY FEATURES: Small fly, to 3mmBL. HEAD light brown with large red eyes. THORAX grey; topside with several long black bristles, and with several longitudinal rows of small black bristles. WINGS transparent, unmarked. ABDOMEN banded light and dark. LEGS brown.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Homoneura acrostichalis (de Meijere, 1915) is another widespread species (Micronesia - Samoa - ?) which has similar size, shape, hairs, etc. but it has thorax brown (vs. grey). Not presently recorded in the Cook Islands.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
	++		+++

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

Homoneura hawaiiensis (Grimshaw,1902)
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Diptera; LAUXANIIDAE

More Information

GENERAL NOTE: Gray thorax, banded abdomen

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Manihiki: fieldspecimen+photo, 1/2004, on Nenu leaves in bush, ID GMcC. Pukapuka: 4 specimens+photo, 2/2004, at lamp at Gov.Res., G.McCormack with ID as Homoneura hawaiensis agains BPBM specimens, 5/2004.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD04a

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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