Morellia maculipennis, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 72

maculipennis Macquart, 1843 , Spilogaster

Spilogaster maculipennis Macquart, 1843: 163 ( 1844: 320) , pl. 22, fig. 3. Lectotype ♀, “de la Guyane. M. Leprieur. Muséum.” ( French Guiana), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There is 1 ♀ syntype under no. 1872 of the Macquart collection in MNHN. It has the accession no. 2896.34 (America, collector Leprieur), and an additional old label with the figure “294”. It is labelled by Macquart simply as “maculipennis”. It is in very poor condition: it is mouldy; left wing, posterior part of thorax and abdomen, left foretarsomeres (tarsomeres 2-5 gummed to pin), left mid leg, right foreleg, and both hind legs missing. Séguy (1937: 461; 1938: 114) wrote that the type was lost, but I see no grounds for not considering this specimen to be a syntype. I have accordingly labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Spilogaster maculipennis belongs to the genus Cyrtoneuropsis Malloch, 1925 , and is an older name for the species known until recently as Cyrtoneuropsis trita ( Stein, 1911) , as interpreted by Snyder (1954: 452) (see Carvalho et al. 1993: 52; 2005: 85; Pamplona 1999: 10, 23, as Paracyrtoneurina ).