Loxotropa atricrus Kieffer, 1911b: 941 .

Valid name

Basalys fumipennis Westwood, 1833 .

Summary of types

Syntype ♂, BMNH number 9.749. Syntype ♂.

Primary type data

[illeg.]; Type; 458.; Cameron coll./ 1910-55; atricrus K. (syntype ♂). [illeg.]’ 461.; Loxotropa / atricrus, K.; Cameron Coll./ 1910-302.; Determined by/ Dr Kieffer (syntype ♂).

Type locality

Scotland.

Remarks

This species was described from an unspecified number of males. Both syntypes are mounted on cards: the specimen numbered “9.749” has one tarsus broken; the other is entire. The specific epithet is derived from ater, Latin for black, and crus, Latin for leg, and is indeclinable.