Curtonevra caerulescens, Macquart, 1834

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 53

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Curtonevra caerulescens
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caerulescens Macquart, 1834 View in CoL , Curtonevra

Curtonevra caerulescens Macquart, 1834a: 12 ( 1834b: 148) View in CoL . Unjustified replacement name for Morellia horticola Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 View in CoL .

MATERIAL. — Macquart gave a description of this species with the name “ Morellia horticola, Rob.D. No. 2.” as a synonym, but gave no reason for replacing Robineau-Desvoidy’s name. The types of horticola are also the types of caerulescens , but Robineau-Desvoidy’s material is known to have been destroyed ( Evenhuis et al. 2010: 233).

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The names caerulescens and horticola are both placed as junior synonyms of Morellia hortorum (Fallén, 1817) ( Hennig 1964a: 969; Pont 1986b: 95), and there is no reason for not accepting this synonymy.