Hermetia Latreille

Fachin, Diego Aguilar, González, Christian R., Elgueta, Mario & Hauser, Martin, 2021, A catalog of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Chile, with a new synonym and notes on the species, Zootaxa 5004 (1), pp. 1-57 : 36-38

Genus Hermetia Latreille

Hermetia Latreille, 1804: 192 . Type species: Musca illucens Linnaeus, 1758 , by monotypy.

= Massicyta Walker, 1856: 8 . Type species: Massicyta bicolor Walker, 1856 , by monotypy. Syn. by Woodley (1989: 316).

= Massycyta Loew, 1860: 75 . Incorrect subsequent spelling.

= Masicyta Marschall, 1873: 337 . Incorrect subsequent spelling.

= Acrodesmia Enderlein, 1914b: 3 . Type species: Acrodesmia luederwaldti Enderlein, 1914b [= Hermetia albitarsis Fabricius, 1805 ], by original designation.

= Scammatocera Enderlein, 1914b: 5 . Type species: Scammatocera virescens Enderlein, 1914b , by original designation. Syn. by James (1975b: 31).

Refs.: Walker, 1854: 20 (in key, cat.), 304 (distr.); James, 1973a: 26.36 (cat.); Woodley, 2001: 178 (cat.); Pujol-Luz & Pujol-Luz, 2014: 404 (list).

Comments. In the world catalog of the family ( Woodley 2001: 178), the genus Thorasena Macquart, 1838 is synonym of Hermetia Latreille, 1804 . Recently, the examination of the type species, H. pectoralis Wiedemann, 1824 , by Hauser et al. (2017: 81) revealed that it does not belong to the Hermetiinae , but it is a Pachygastrinae and it was revalidated.

illucens ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Musca illucens Linnaeus, 1758: 589 .

= Musca leucopa Linnaeus, 1767: 983 . Syntype: 1 female (LSUK, type number No. LINN 3168, photos of the specimen are available here: http://linnean-online.org/20558/). Type locality: America.

= Hermetia rufiventris Fabricius, 1805: 63 . Syntypes: 2 females (ZMUC, type numbers No. zmuc00027406 and zmuc00027406). Type locality: “America meridionali”.

= Hermetia pellucens Macquart, 1834 : explication des planches 4: Planche V, fig. 11. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

= Hermetia nigrifacies Bigot, 1879: 200 . Lectotype: male (NHMUK, type number No. BMNH(E)240081). Type locality: Mexico; Paralectotypes: 5 males, 5 females (NHMUK). Type locality: Mexico. Designated by McFadden (1972: 257).

= Hermetia mucens Riley & Howard, 1889: 353 . Incorrect subsequent spelling.

= Hermetia illucens var. nigritibia Enderlein, 1914b: 9 . Holotype: sex not stated (MZPW). Type locality: Brazil, Santa Catarina

= Hermetia illuscens Copello, 1926: 23 . Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Syntype: female (NHRS; only one original syntype of Linnaeus’s description is found, stated a female; other two specimens of Musca illucens are of the family Mydidae , clearly not the original syntypes; see Rozkošný, 1983: 173; Lessard et al. 2019: 9). Type locality: “South America”. Distr.: Chile: Valparaíso Region to Los Lagos Region. Worldwide (see Woodley, 2001).

Refs.: Elgueta, 1989: 97 (distr.); Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.); Pujol-Luz & Pujol-Luz, 2014: 405 (list); Pujol-Luz et al., 2016 (list).

Comments. Originally from the Americas, Hermetia illucens is occurring in all other tropical and in many subtropical and temperate regions. The species is non-native to Chile, as native populations are considered from northern parts of South America to the southern parts of the US (see Marshall et al. 2015; Ståhls et al. 2020). For the country, the historical spread of the species is still to be mapped, only Elgueta (1989) reported the species to occur from the Valparaíso Region to Los Lagos Region (between 30°S to 45°S), with the oldest record dated in 1981.