Ophyra rufipes, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 87-88

rufipes Macquart, 1851 , Orthostylum

Orthostylum rufipes Macquart, 1851b: 246 ( 1851d: 273) , pl. 25, figs 4, 4a. Lectotype ♂, “d’Égypte. M. Bigot.” ( Egypt), by present designation, in OUMNH.

MATERIAL. — There is 1 ♂ in the Bigot collection in OUMNH. It is in poor condition: head rubbed, and aristae missing ; left foretarsomeres, right foreleg, both mid legs, left hind tarsomeres 2-5, and right hind leg missing. I have removed the abdomen, macerated it, and placed it in a small vial of glycerine attached to the same pin. It is labelled by Macquart “ Orthostylum / rufipes. ♂. / n. g., n. sp. Macq.”, and stands over Bigot’s drawer label “ O. rufipes . ♂. / Egyptus. Macq.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Séguy (1952: 7) considered this to be an unrecognized species (and genus) of the

Scathophagidae , but it is a species of Atherigona Rondani, 1856 (Muscidae) with yellow frontal vitta and palpi, and belongs to a small group of species with yellow vibrissal setae. The structure of the terminalia identifies O. rufipes as a junior synonym of Atherigona pulla (Wiedemann, 1830) (see Pont 1973a: fig. 14), a synonymy given by Pont (1986b: 114). Application needs to be made to the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature for the suppression of the generic name Orthostylum Macquart, 1851 , which should otherwise replace Atherigona Rondani, 1856 , as the name for a genus of agricultural importance in the Old World tropics and subtropics which contains almost 300 species.