Musca canicularis, Linnaeus, 1761:454

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canicularis Linnaeus, 1761:454 (Musca) .

New name for lateralis Linnaeus, 1758 .

Distr.­ Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is., Juan Fernández Is., Galápagos Is., Inaccessible Island; cosmopolitan. Ref. Hennig 1955a:32, figs 3, 4, 8, 15, pl. 1, fig. 7; Hennig 1955c:pl. 4, fig. 66. Myantha canicularis ; Rondani 1863:34; 1864:34 ( Chile).

Homalomyia canicularis ; Rondani 1866:132 ( Chile); Rondani 1877:48 ( Chile); Wulp 1883:47 ( Argentina); Bigot 1885:284 ( Argentina); Wulp 1896:331 ( Costa Rica); Coquillett 1901:375 (Galápagos Is.); Stein 1901:199; Stein 1904:458 ( Colombia, Chile); Stein 1907a:216.

Fannia canicularis ; Stein 1911:108 ( Chile); Stein 1919:131, 132 (cat.); Shannon and Del Ponte 1926:566, 571 ( Argentina); Gaminara 1930:1253 ( Uruguay), fig. 6; Gaminara 1931:1253 ( Uruguay), fig. 6; Curran 1932:359 (Galápagos Is.); Séguy 1932:22 ( Argentina, parasite of Schistocerca paranensis ); Roberts 1934:253 ( Mexico); Malloch 1934:203 ( Argentina, Chile); Séguy 1937:165 (cat.); Ortiz 1946:157 (cat.); James 1947:130 ( Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Galápagos Is., Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.); Ruffinelli and Carbonell 1954:66 ( Uruguay); Hennig 1955b:26 (Juan Fernández Is.); Chillcott 1961:188 ( Mexico and N. America), figs 129, 129A–D (male genitalia), 203 (female ovipositor), 261 (wing), 271–272 (egg), 283 (larva); Hennig 1965:fig. 6 (epandrium); Pont 1972:3 (cat.); Huckett 1972:82 (syntype of mexicana seen); Linhares 1981:232 ( Brazil, synanthropy), 235 (synanthropic index), 239 (distribution, habits); Albuquerque et al. 1981:10 ( canicularis ­group), 22 (key); Holloway 1985:250, figs 22, 31, 40, 49, 58 (larva); Ribeiro et al. 1985:507–509 ( Brazil); Almeida et al. 1985:279–284 ( Brazil, synanthropy); Queiroz and Carvalho 1987:276 ( Brazil, description larva III, in open dumps and domestic garbage compost), figs 47–48 (larva); Bruno et al. 1992:55–59 ( Brazil); Carvalho et al. 1993:8 (cat.); Perotti and Brasesco 1996:3–8 ( Argentina, poultry manure); Perotti 1998:145–154 ( Argentina, synanthropic flies); Carvalho and Couri 1999:211 (South Atlantic, Inaccessible Island); Carvalho et al. 2002:108 (key), 112 ( Brazil, human habits).

00 lateralis Linnaeus, 1758:597 (Musca) . Lectotype male, LSUK [des. Pont 1981:170]. Type­locality: “Europe”. Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. 1969, Opinion 884.

00 chilensis Macquart, 1843a:328 , pl. 23, fig. 4; 1843b:171, pl. 23, fig. 4 ( Anthomyia ). Syntypes male, MNHN. Type­locality: " Chili ".

Anthomyia chilensis ; Gay 1852:442 ( Chile); Reed 1888:33 ( Chile).

00 introducta Walker, 1853:362 ( Anthomyia ). Holotype female, BMNH. Type­locality: "South America ". Synonymy by Stein 1901:199.

00 mexicana Bigot, 1885:284 (Homalomyia) . Lectotype male, UMO [des. Pont in Carvalho et al. 1993:9; see also Pont 2000a:104, 2000b:18 (both: notes on types)]; paralectotypes male, UMO. Type­locality: " Mexique ". Synonymy by Stein 1907b:279. Homalomyia mexicana ; Giglio­Tos 1896:27 ( Mexico); Wulp 1896:332 ( Mexico, Costa Rica).