Fucellia calcoerata, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 54

calcoerata Macquart, 1851 , Scatophaga

Scatophaga calcoerata Macquart, 1851b: 246 ( 1851d: 273) , pl. 25, figs 5, 5a, 5b. Lectotype ♂ (not ♀, as stated by Macquart), “ Chili. M. Pissis. Muséum.” ( Chile), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL.— There is 1 ♂ syntype in the Macquart collection in MNHN, under no. 1893. Macquart probably described it as a ♀ because of the dichoptic head, but it belongs to the genus Fucellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1841 , in which all the ♂♂ are dichoptic.It is a little immature, but is otherwise well preserved.It has an old hand-written label “34” and the accession no.124.38 ( Chile, collector Pissis).It is labelled by Macquart “ Scatophaga / calcarata [sic] / ♀. Macq. n. sp.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — This is a very characteristic species of Fucellia ( Pont 1974a:5) . The ♂ hind tibia has been illustrated by Malloch (1934: fig. 28), and the head and hind tibia of the lectotype were illustrated by Séguy (1952: 8, fig. 3).