Heterostylodes obscura, Macquart, 1835

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 78

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Heterostylodes obscura
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obscura Macquart, 1835 View in CoL , Anthomyia

Anthomyia obscura Macquart, 1835: 336 View in CoL . Lectotype ♂, “du nord de la France ” ( France, Lille area), by designation of Hennig (1976: 924), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — Described from an unspecified number of ♂♂. There are no syntypes in MHNL, but Hennig (1976: 924) located 1 ♂ in MNHN labelled by Macquart as “N°. 91, / Anthomyia / obscura”. He referred to this as probably the “ Holotypus ”, and this statement should be interpreted as lectotype designation by inference. The lectotype is not fully hardened, with right foreleg and right hind leg missing. The abdomen has been removed and dissected by Hennig, and mounted on two slides.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Hennig (loc. cit.) identified the lectotype as a ♂ of Heterostylodes pratensis (Meigen, 1826) , but according to Dr V. Michelsen (pers. comm.) it actually represents a good species of the genus Heterostylodes Hennig, 1967 .