Lucilia eriophthalma, Macquart, 1834

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 61

eriophthalma Macquart, 1834 , Lucilia

Lucilia eriophthalma Macquart, 1834a: 32 ( 1834b: 168) . Syntype (s) ♂ (♂), “environs de Lille” ( France, Lille area), not in MNHN or MHNL, and presumed destroyed (also described as a new species in Macquart 1835: 258, “du nord de la France ”).

MATERIAL. — Described from an unspecified number of ♂♂. No syntypes have been located. Hennig (1963d: 951) also reported that there were no syntypes in MHNL.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Lucilia eriophthalma is placed in synonymy with Eudasyphora cyanella (Meigen, 1826) ( Hennig 1963d: 950, as Dasyphora ; Pont 1986b: 104). Zimin (1951: 186) used the name for a species of Eudasyphora Townsend, 1911 , closely related to E. cyanella , but Hennig (loc. cit.) has shown that this species is found only in upland areas of Central Europe and is most unlikely to have occurred around Lille. He treated eriophthalma as a synonym of cyanella , and for the second species ( eriophthalma sensu Zimin ) proposed the name Dasyphora zimini Hennig, 1963 .