Lucilia meridensis, Macquart, 1846
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meridensis Macquart, 1846 , Lucilia
Lucilia meridensis Macquart, 1846a: 327 ( 1846b: 199) . Syntypes ♂ and ♀, “de Mérida de Yucatan. Trouvée par M. Pilate.” ( Mexico, Yucatan, Mérida), not in MNHN or MHNL, and presumed destroyed.
MATERIAL. —Described from material collected by Pilate. No syntypes have been located. Brauer (1899: 522) studied some specimens of L. meridensis from North America in the Bigot collection and placed them in the genus Pyrellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . Aubertin (1933: 429) stated that she had not found the type but was following Brauer in assigning the name to the Muscidae . This statement was the basis for James’ (1970) exclusion of the name from the Calliphoridae and for my own inclusion of it as a species of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ( Pont 1972: 9) . However, the specimens studied by Brauer, now in the BMNH, are labelled by Macquart “ Lucilia meridensis ♂ ♀. Macq. var.” and are from North America. There are 1 ♂ and 3 ♀♀, and they belong to Neomyia cornicina (Fabricius, 1781) . They are certainly not types and should not be used in assessing the identity of the name meridensis .
CURRENT IDENTITY. — The description of Lucilia meridensis indicates that the name should in fact be referred to the Calliphoridae , either to the Chrysomyini or to Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . The angular forward curvature of vein M excludes all the muscid greenbottles except for species of Neomyia Walker, 1859 , and this genus is excluded by Macquart’s description of yellow palpi and yellowish-white fronto-orbital plates (“cotés [du front] d’un blanc jaunâtre”).
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Lucilia meridensis
Pont, Adrian C. 2012 |
Lucilia meridensis
MACQUART P. J. M. 1846: 327 |
MACQUART P. J. M. 1846: 199 |