Aricia pruinosa, Macquart, 1846

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 81

pruinosa Macquart, 1846 , Aricia

Aricia pruinosa Macquart, 1846a: 329 ( 1846b: 201) (junior primary homonym of Aricia antiqua var. pruinosa Zetterstedt, 1845 (now Delia pruinosa ). Syntypes ♂ and ♀, “du Texas. Galveston. Trouvée par M. Pilate.” ( USA, Texas, Galveston), not in MNHN or MHNL, and presumed destroyed.

MATERIAL. — The location of Pilate’s collection is not known, and no syntypes have been located.

In the Bigot collection in OUMNH, there is a series of specimens from Mexico under the name “ S. pruinosus Macq. ”. These are not syntypes, as they are not from Texas and there is in any case no evidence that Bigot acquired Pilate’s Diptera , but they are the specimens on which Stein (1907b: 284, 285) based his comments on “ pruinosus Bigot in litt.”. Bigot’s drawer label, however, clearly reads “ S. pruinosus . ♂. [deleted] / Aricia id. Macq./ Mexique. J.Bigot.”. 1 ♂ also has a Bigot provisional label “ Spilogaster . Rond / Aricia pruinosa ♂ ♀ / Macq. Mexic”.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Huckett (1965b: 907) included A. pruinosa as an unrecognized species of Phaonia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , but I placed it in the genus Polietina Schnabl & Dziedzicki, 1911 ( Pont 1972: 55; Carvalho et al. 1993: 63) and, following Stein (1918: 208; 1919: 113), placed P. concinna (Wulp, 1896) in synonymy with it. In fact, the name is a junior primary homonym and cannot be used, and the name Polietina concinna is now used for this species ( Couri & Carvalho 1997: 261-264, figs 9-13; Carvalho et al. 2005: 39).

Of the OUMNH specimens, 7 ♂♂ and 2 ♀♀ are Polietina concinna (Wulp, 1896) , 1 ♀ is Cyrtoneurina uber Giglio-Tos, 1893 , and 1 ♂ is Cyrtoneuropsis steini ( Snyder, 1954) .