Cleigaster longicornis, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 71

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3

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scientific name

Cleigaster longicornis
status

 

longicornis Macquart, 1851 , Cyrtonevra

Cyrtonevra longicornis Macquart, 1851b: 228 ( 1851d: 255) View in CoL , pl. 223, fig. 8. Lectotype ♂ (not ♀, as stated by Macquart), “ Tasmanie. Muséum.” ( Australia, Tasmania), by designation of Pont (1974b: 363), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There is one syntype in the Macquart collection in MNHN, under no. 2395. It is a ♂, and not

a ♀ as stated by Macquart. ♂♂ of the genus Passeromyia Rodhain & Villeneuve, 1915 , to which this species belongs, have a broad frons and there is little sexual dimorphism (see Pont 1974b: fig. 1), so that Macquart’s error in sexing his specimen is an understandable one. Right antenna and right mid leg missing, and left wing broken across costa near base, otherwise well preserved. It has a pink label with the accession no. 4.46 (Tasmania, collector Verreaux), and is labelled by Macquart “ Cyrtonevra / longicornis / ♀. Macq. n. sp.”. I have previously referred to it as the holotype ( Pont 1974b: 363), and this statement must be interpreted as lectotype designation by inference.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — As noted above, this is a valid species of the genus Passeromyia , known only from Tasmania. It has been redescribed by Pont (1974b: 363, 364).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Scathophagidae

Genus

Cleigaster

Loc

Cleigaster longicornis

Pont, Adrian C. 2012
2012
Loc

Cyrtonevra longicornis

PONT A. C. 1974: 363
MACQUART P. J. M. 1851: 228
MACQUART P. J. M. 1851: 255
1851
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