Pyrellia maculipennata, Macquart, 1851

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Pyrellia maculipennata
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maculipennata Macquart, 1851 View in CoL , Pyrellia

Pyrellia maculipennata Macquart, 1851b: 225 ( 1851d: 252) View in CoL , pl. 23, fig. 7. Lectotype ♀, “ Brésil, Minas Geraes. M. Clausse. Muséum.” ( Brazil, Minas Gerais state), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There is 1 ♀ syntype, under no. 1857 of the Macquart collection in MNHN. It is in good condition. It has a green disc with the accession no. 9.43 ( Brazil, Minas Gerais, collector Claussen), and is labelled by Macquart “ Pyrellia / maculipennata / ♀. Macq. n. sp.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The name P. maculipennata was synonymized with Morellia violacea (Fabricius, 1805) by Hough (1899: 3), but the name violacea is a junior primary homonym and in any case belongs to the family Calliphoridae ( Michelsen 1979: 191) . The oldest name for this species is Morellia maculipennis (Macquart, 1846) ( Pont 1972: 9; Carvalho et al. 1993: 18; 2005: 29). The lectotype does indeed belong to this species as currently defined ( Pamplona 1986: 650), and the synonymy first proposed by Hough can be confirmed.