Anthomyia fulviceps, Macquart, 1835

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 64

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Anthomyia fulviceps
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fulviceps Macquart, 1835 View in CoL , Anthomyia

Anthomyia fulviceps Macquart, 1835: 340 View in CoL . Syntypes ♂ and ♀, “du nord de la France ” ( France, Lille area), not in MNHN or MHNL, and presumed destroyed.

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

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Interpretation of this name is difficult. Bezzi & Stein (1907: 717), Hennig (1976: 922) and Dely-Draskovits (1993: 100) have left it as an unrecognized species of Anthomyiidae . I believe that the reddish ground-colour of the head, to which the name fulviceps makes allusion, is in fact an artefact and the result of insufficient hardening, and that the name Anthomyia fulviceps is a junior synonym of Delia platura (Meigen, 1826) (n. syn.).