Hydrotoea cyaneiventris, Macquart, 1855

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 57

cyaneiventris Macquart, 1855 , Hydrotea

Hydrotea cyaneiventris Macquart, 1855a: 138 ( 1855b: 118) (junior primary homonym of Hydrotoea cyaneiventris Macquart, 1851 ). Lectotype ♂, “de la Nouvelle-Hollande. Adélaide.M. Bigot.” ( Australia, South Australia, Adelaide), by present designation, in OUMNH.

MATERIAL. — The single surviving syntype is rather mouldy; left foreleg, left mid leg, right foretarsomeres 2-5, and right mid tarsomeres 2-5 missing. It is labelled by Macquart “ Hydrotea / cyaneiventris / ♂. Macq.” and stands over the Bigot drawer label “ H. cyaneiventris . ♂. / Austral. (Adelaïde) Macq.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype. It was lent by Verrall to Stein in 1907, according to a note in Verrall’s MS list of the Diptera in the Bigot collection.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Hydrotea cyaneiventris is a junior synonym of Australophyra rostrata (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) , as established by Stein (1907b: 273, as Ophyra analis Macquart, 1846 ) and Pont (1973b: 250).