Curtonevra vicina, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 94

vicina Macquart, 1851 , Musca

Musca vicina Macquart, 1851b: 226 ( 1851d: 253) . Lectotype ♂, “Amérique. Muséum.” (actually Martinique Island), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — Described from both sexes, there are 2 ♂♂ and 1 ♀ syntypes under no. 1197 of the Macquart collection in MNHN. Both have the accession no. 2368.41, which refers to a collection from Martinique. Both are dirty ; the one with the left hind leg missing is marginally the better, and I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype; the other, with left mid leg missing, has been labelled as paralectotype. The ♀ has the accession no. 2367.41, which refers to a collection from New York. It is labelled by Macquart “ Musca / vicina. ♀ / Macq. n. sp.”, and I have labelled it as paralectotype.

In box G.21 of the Macquart collection in MHNL, there is 1 ♂ named as M. vicina . This is not a syntype, however,as it was collected at Hobart ( Australia, Tasmania) by Le Guillou.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — All three syntypes are identical with the typical subspecies of Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 , a synonymy that has been recognized for a long time although some authors (e.g., Patton, and even more modern workers) continued to give the name “subspecific” rank for the narrow-fronsed tropical form of Musca d. domestica . The ♂ in MHNL is also Musca domestica .