Musca australis, Macquart, 1848

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Musca australis
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Treatment

australis Macquart, 1848 , Pyrellia

Pyrellia australis Macquart, 1848a: 217 ( 1848b: 57) View in CoL , pl. 6, fig. 10. Lectotype ♂, “de la Nouvelle-Hollande.

Collection de M. Bigot.” ( Australia), by designation of Pont (1973b: 202), in BMNH.

MATERIAL. — I have previously discussed the type-series of this species ( Pont 1973b: 203). The lectotype and 1 ♂ and 2 ♀♀ paralectotypes are in BMNH. The lectotype is rather mouldy ; left hind leg, right mid tarsomeres, and right wing missing. It is labelled by Macquart “ Pyrellia / australis / ♂. ♀. nov. sp.”.

In MHNL, in box G.21 of the Macquart collection, there is a label “ P. australis . / Nov. Holl. Bigot”, but no specimen survives. In box G, there is a ♀ labelled “P. / australis. / Macq. Nov. Hol.”, which appears not to be a syntype ; it is Pyrellia tasmaniae Macquart, 1846 .

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The lectotype and paralectotypes belong to a good species of the genus Neomyia Walker, 1859 , redescribed (in the genus Orthellia Robineau- Desvoidy, 1863) in my revision of Australian Muscinae ( Pont 1973b: 202).