Spilogaster quadrivittata, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 82-83

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3

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scientific name

Spilogaster quadrivittata
status

 

quadrivittata Macquart, 1843 View in CoL , Spilogaster

Spilogaster quadrivittata Macquart, 1843: 163 ( 1844: 320) View in CoL . Lectotype ♂, Europe (not “de l’île Bourbon [ La Réunion]. M. Bréon. Muséum.” as stated by Macquart), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — Described from material collected by Bréon on La Réunion, there are 2 ♂♂ syntypes under no. 988 of the Macquart collection in MNHN. One is labelled “292”, and “quadrivittata” by Macquart ; the other has no labels. Both are somewhat defective. I have labelled and designate herewith the ♂ with Macquart’s label as lectotype, and the second (unlabelled) ♂ as paralectotype. The lectotype has some mould and lacks left foreleg.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — These 2 ♂♂ belong to the genus Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , and are quite unlike any known Malagasy or even Afrotropical species. In fact, the lectotype has proved to be Helina reversio (Harris, 1780) and the paralectotype Helina trivittata (Zetterstedt, 1860) , both of which are widespread European species. The locality given by Macquart is incorrect, and the name S. quadrivittata is now treated as a junior synonym of H. reversio ( Pont 1986b: 149) .

It should be noted that in the same box of the Macquart collection, under no. 991, there is a ♂ identified as Spilogaster duplicata (Meigen, 1826) , i.e. what is now known as Helina reversio . It has the accession no. 4112.33, and the relevant entry in the MNHN register states that this collection came from île Bourbon ( La Réunion), collected by Bréon. Beneath this, there is a note by the coleopterist E. J. B. Fleutiaux (1858-1951), that three Elateridae collected on La Réunion by Bréon are in fact European species. Evidently, a whole batch of European insect material was mislabelled as being from La Réunion.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Spilogaster

Loc

Spilogaster quadrivittata

Pont, Adrian C. 2012
2012
Loc

Spilogaster quadrivittata

MACQUART P. J. M. 1844: 320
MACQUART P. J. M. 1843: 163
1843
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