Description originale
Malloch, J. R. 1932. Muscidae of the Marquesas Islands. Bulletin of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 98: 193-203. : 196

 

Statut pour la Polynésie française
Malloch, J. R. 1932. Muscidae of the Marquesas Islands. Bulletin of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 98: 193-203. : 196 [PF = P]

 

Matériel type : Hivaoa: Mataovau, altitude 390 feet, June 5, 1929, type male, allotype and 2 paratypes, Mumford and Adamson.
Mohotani: seashore, January 31, 1931, 23 paratypes, mostly females, LeBronnec and H. Tauraa.
I have also a male specimen from Tahiti, Society· Islands, collected in the Papenoo Valley, at 500 feet altitude, on October 25, 1928, by A. M. Adamson.