Hydrophoria nitida, Macquart, 1835

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 77

nitida Macquart, 1835 , Hylemyia

Hylemyia nitida Macquart, 1835: 321 . Syntype (s) ♀ (♀), “du nord de la France ” ( France, Lille area), not in MNHN or MHNL, and presumed destroyed.

MATERIAL. — Described from an unspecified number of ♀♀. No syntypes have been located.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Bezzi & Stein (1907: 693) listed H. nitida as an unrecognized species of Hylemya Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830. Séguy (1937: 105), as noted above under Anthomyia nitida , listed both Hylemyia nitida and Anthomyia nitida under one entry in Hylemya . Hennig (1966 - 1976) did not mention Hylemyia nitida . Dely-Draskovits (1993: 100) listed it as an unrecognized species, giving the page reference of 321 but listing it as Anthomyia nitida . The species was described into a group of Anthomyiidae with short-plumose arista, including H.cardui (Meigen, 1826) , H. longula (Fallén, 1824) and H. coarctata (Fallén, 1825) . Macquart’s description is of a ♀ that is shining black with greenish reflections, and with wing-veins bordered with yellow, and, following a suggestion from Dr V. Michelsen (pers. comm.), this is synonymized with Chirosia flavipennis (Fallén, 1823) (n. syn.).