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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN MUSCOIDEA, VI. 
CALLIPHORA IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. 
By G. H. Hardy, Department of Biology, University of Queensland. 
(. Received 13 th October, 1945; accepted for publication, 29 th October, 
1945; issued separately 20 th January, 1947.) 
Compared with European and North American species, the 
Australian Calliphoras have a diverse appearance causing early authors 
to regard them as belonging to several distinct genera. Each important 
constituent in this fauna has been given one or more generic names, and 
colour seems to have been the chief recognition factor. More modern 
authors have attempted to advance beyond this plan. W. S. Patton 
(1934-5) adopted Calliphora sensu lato as his basis of study and he used 
a few characters of the terminalia for purposes of subdivision, resulting 
in the formation of three groups, each containing species diverse in 
appearance and structure. D. Miller (1939), taking a very conserva- 
tive view, regards the terminalia as being liable to variation, and thus 
small differences used for subspecific determination are inconstant; at 
best he could admit only two subgenera in New Zealand, based upon 
bare and hairy eyes which admittedly gradate from one to the other. 
Hardy (1937), using colour characters for main divisions, attempts sub- 
division on such terminal characters as might run parallel with colour, 
thus keeping together species that are obviously related. 
The New Zealand fauna falls into three divisions, namely, 
Calliphora with one introduced species, N eopollenia with two species, 
and all the rest included under N eocalliphora, being limited to these 
islands ; whilst the orange or yellow thoracic spiracle can be used for 
subgeneric discrimination. The Australian Onesia species possibly form 
a complex, and if so, a few may have affinities with N eocalliphora ; but 
terminal characters, more detailed than those given by Miller, are 
needed. The Australian Adichosia also seems closely related to 
N eocalliphora. 
The following generic names have been proposed for these two 
faunas : — 
Onesia Desvoidy 1830 : type Musca sepulchralis Meigen, Europe. 
This name has precedence over Calliphora, and the range of 
the genus probably includes Australia but not New Zealand. 
In the present studies the name is used for convenience. 
Calliphora Desvoidy 1830: type Musca erythrocephala Meigen, 
Europe. 
f Anastellorhina Bigot 1885 : type bicolor Bigot, Australia. This 
is said to be C. augur Fab., but Townsend, who saw the type 
only through the glass of the cabinet drawer, may have seen 
Lucilia fergusoni Patton, which needs close examination to 
distinguish it from C. augur. 
N eopollenia Bfauer 1889 : type Musca stygia Fabricius, 
Australia. 
N eocalliphora Brauer & Bergenstamm 1891 : type Musca 
quadrimaculata Swederus, New Zealand. Originally based 
on its hairy eyes and covered Adichosia. 
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