Musca sanctaehelenae, Macquart, 1848

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 89

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3

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scientific name

Musca sanctaehelenae
status

 

sanctaehelenae Macquart, 1848 , Musca

Musca sanctaehelenae Macquart, 1848a: 218 ( 1848b: 58) , pl. 6, fig. 14 (as sanctae-helenae). Lectotype ♂, “de Sainte-Hélène. Collection de M. Payen.” ( Saint Helena Island), by designation of Pont (1977a: 126), in IRSNB.

MATERIAL. — Described from the collection of M. Payen of Tournai. 1 ♂ and 2 ♀♀ syntypes were located in MHNT by the late Dr J. Verbeke and sent to me for study ( Pont 1977a: 126, 127). The ♂ was designated as lectotype and the 2 ♀♀ as paralectotypes. These specimens, along with the other types collected by Payen, are now on permanent loan to IRSNB (P. Grootaert, pers. comm.). There is a further ♂ syntype in box G.21 of the Macquart collection in MHNL. It stands over a label “M. Staeheleniae / St. helenia. Payen”, and is very mouldy. I have labelled it as paralectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Study of the type-series has confirmed the existing synonymy of Musca sanctaehelenae with Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 ( Pont 1980: 727) . The MHNL ♂ is probably Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 .

MHNT

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Toulouse

IRSNB

Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique

MHNL

Musee Guimet d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Anthomyiidae

Genus

Musca

Loc

Musca sanctaehelenae

Pont, Adrian C. 2012
2012
Loc

Musca sanctaehelenae

PONT A. C. 1977: 126
MACQUART P. J. M. 1848: 218
MACQUART P. J. M. 1848: 58
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