Caenosia basilaris, Macquart, 1835

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 50

basilaris Macquart, 1835 , Caenosia

Caenosia basilaris Macquart, 1835: 348 . Syntype (s) ♀ (♀), “de Bordeaux” ( France, Bordeaux), not in MNHN or MNHL, and presumed destroyed.

MATERIAL. — Described from an unspecified number of ♀♀. No syntypes have been located.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The species is listed as an unrecognized species of Coenosia Meigen, 1826 , in the standard works (e.g., Hennig 1962a: 618; Pont 1986b: 214). On re-studying Macquart’s meagre description, I think that this is most probably the ♀ of the species that he described as Caenosia testacea Macquart, 1835 , from ♂♂ from Bordeaux and that it should, like Caenosia testacea , be assigned to the synonymy of Coenosia testacea (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) (n. syn.).