Chortophila cuprea, Macquart, 1835

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 56

cuprea Macquart, 1835 , Chortophila

Chortophila cuprea Macquart, 1835: 324 . Unjustified replacement name for Nerina cinerea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

MATERIAL. — As this is a replacement name, Robineau-Desvoidy’s types of cinerea are also the types of cuprea . Robineau-Desvoidy’s collection is largely destroyed, and his types of cinerea no longer exist ( Evenhuis et al. 2010: 233).

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The name cinerea (and cuprea ) is listed as an unrecognized species of Anthomyiidae by Bezzi & Stein (1907: 714), Hennig (1976: 921) and Dely-Draskovits (1993: 99). It seems to me, however, that cinerea , like the following two species described by Robineau-Desvoidy (albipennis and flavescens), is the same as Adia cinerella (Fallén, 1825) , and I herewith formally synonymize the names Nerina cinerea and Chortophila cuprea with Adia cinerella (Fallén, 1825) (n. syn.).