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

rufipes Macquart, 1851 , Macrochoeta

Macrochoeta rufipes Macquart, 1851b: 243 ( 1851d: 270) , pl. 24, figs 15, 15a. Lectotype ♀, “ Nouvelle-Hollande, côte orientale. Muséum.” ( Australia, east coast), by designation of Albuquerque (1949: 441), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — The single syntype is in MNHN, under no. 2408 of the Macquart collection. As previously noted ( Pont 1967: 184), it is in poor condition: head, thorax, left wing, both forelegs, and left mid leg still on the pin but rather mouldy, and right foretarsomeres 4-5 missing ; abdomen (very damp, hollowed out, tip missing), right wing, right mid leg and one hind leg mounted separately on a mount; remains of the other hind leg (femur and some tarsomeres) glued to one of the labels. It has a pink accession disc with the number 2.47, and a printed MNHN label “Museum Paris / Tasmania / Verreaux 3-47”. It is labelled by Macquart “Macrochoeta / rufipes. ♀ / Macq. n. g., n. sp.”. 2.47 is the number for a collection made by Verreaux in Australia, and 3.47 for one made in Tasmania. Macquart was correct in giving the east coast of Australia as the type-locality, and I made a mistake in citing Tasmania ( Pont 1967: 184, 185). This ♀ has been listed as lectotype by Albuquerque (1949: 441) .

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Both Séguy (1948: 169) and Albuquerque (1949: 440, 441, figs 3-8) have redescribed the lectotype. As I have already established ( Pont 1967: 185; 1989b: 699), this is an older name for Pygophora abnorma Paramonov, 1961 (see Crosskey 1962: 497-499). The genus-group name Macrochoeta Macquart, 1851 has been suppressed by the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature ( ICZN 1969, opinion 867).