Anthomyia tibialis, Macquart, 1835

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 92

tibialis Macquart, 1835 , Anthomyia

Anthomyia tibialis Macquart, 1835: 338 (junior primary homonym of Anthomyia tibialis Wiedemann, 1817 ). Syntype (s) ♂ (♂), “du nord de la France ” ( France, Lille area), not in MNHN or MHNL, and presumed destroyed.

MATERIAL. — Described from an unspecified number of ♂♂. No syntypes have been located.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Bezzi & Stein (1907: 724), Hennig (1976: 926) and Dely-Draskovits (1993: 101) left A. tibialis as an unrecognized species of Anthomyiidae . Macquart himself compared it with his Anthomyia nitida , but A. nitida is a junior synonym of Fannia serena (Fallén, 1825) (see above). Macquart’s description of yellow femora with black tips (and dark abdomen) does not fit any known species of Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , but does fit a number of species of Pegomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . According to Dr V. Michelsen (pers. comm.), it best matches P. conformis (Fallén, 1825) , and Anthomyia tibialis Macquart, 1835 , is herewith synonymized with Pegomya conformis (Fallén, 1825) (n. syn.).