Musca rufiventris, Macquart, 1846

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 88-89

rufiventris Macquart, 1846 , Musca

Musca rufiventris Macquart, 1846a: 328 ( 1846b: 200) , pl. 17, fig.8 (junior primary homonym of Musca rufiventris Scopoli, 1763 ). Lectotype ♂, “du Brésil. Communiquée

par M. Bigot.” ( Brazil), by designation of Pont (1990: 168), in BMNH.

MATERIAL. — Two syntypes, 1 ♂ and 1 ♀, are in that part of the Bigot collection now in the BMNH. Both are on identical pins, and are extremely mouldy.The ♂ is labelled by Macquart “ Musca / rufiventris / n. sp. [deleted]”. They stand over a Bigot drawer label “ M. rufiventris . 1 ♂ 2 ♀ s/ Brasil? Van Diemen.? Macq.”. The ♂ was designated as lectotype and the ♀ as paralectotype (Pont, loc. cit.). With these two syntypes, there is a ♂ from Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), which is not a syntype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Brauer (1899: 528, no. 268) studied these specimens and thought that they might be Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 . This synonymy has been confirmed ( Pont 1972: 7; Carvalho et al. 1993: 17; 2005: 26). The Tasmanian ♂ is also Musca domestica .