Macrochoeta rufipes, Macquart, 1847

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

rufipes Macquart, 1847 , Ophyra

Ophyra rufipes Macquart, 1847a: 86 ( 1847b: 102) , pl. 5, fig. 13. Lectotype ♀, “de la Nouvelle-Hollande.M. Bigot.” ( Australia), by present designation, in OUMNH.

MATERIAL. — 1 ♀ is in the Bigot collection in OUMNH. It was lent by Verrall to Stein in 1907, according to a note in Verrall’s MS list of the Diptera in the Bigot collection. It is in very poor condition: damp, mouldy, wings tattered ; little recognizable detail on the head; left foretarsomeres 4-5, both mid legs, left hind leg and right hind tarsomeres 2-5 missing. It is labelled by Macquart “ Ophyra / rufipes. ♀ / n. sp. Macq.”, and stands over Bigot’s drawer label “ O. rufipes . ♀. / Austral. Macq.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Stein (1907b:286) saw this specimen and commented on its appalling condition.I have been able to recognize it as a species of Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , and as a junior synonym of Helina subpubescens (Macquart, 1847) (see also below) ( Pont 1989b: 686).