Anthomyia rubrifrons, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 84

rubrifrons Macquart, 1851 , Anthomyia

Anthomyia rubrifrons Macquart, 1851b: 240 ( 1851d: 267) , pl. 24, fig. 11. Lectotype ♀, “ Nouvelle-Hollande, côte occidentale. Muséum.” ( Australia, west coast), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There is 1 ♀ syntype in MNHN, under no. 2407 of the Macquart collection. It is slightly mouldy but is otherwise in good condition with all legs (except left hind tarsomeres 3-5) and setae still intact. It has a pink disc with the accession no. 2.47 ( Australia, collector Verreaux), and is labelled by Macquart “ Anthomyia / rubrifrons / ♀. Macq. n. sp.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Stein (1919: 154), without seeing the lectotype, gave A. rubrifrons as a doubtful synonym of Chortophila (now Adia ) cinerella (Fallén, 1825) , and Séguy (1937: 112) included it as a species of Hylemya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . In fact, A. rubrifrons belongs to the genus Delia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , which contains only two species in Australia ( Colless 1982: 90), and Anthomyia rubrifrons is a junior synonym of Delia platura (Meigen, 1826) (see Pont 1989a: 674). It has a short but distinct prealar seta, and 4-5 anterodorsal setae on hind tibia.