Choetura rufipes, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 87

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Choetura rufipes
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rufipes Macquart, 1851 View in CoL , Limnophora

Limnophora rufipes Macquart, 1851b: 236 ( 1851d: 263) View in CoL , pl. 24, fig. 5 (junior secondary homonym in Helina of Ophyra rufipes Macquart, 1847 View in CoL ). Lectotype ♂, “Nouvelle- Hollande, Côte orientale.Muséum.” ( Australia, east coast), by designation of Albuquerque (1950a: 246), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There is 1 ♂ syntype in MNHN, under no. 2405 of the Macquart collection. It is not in good condition: rather mouldy, thorax rubbed, abdomen damp ; right mid leg missing. It has the accession no. 2.47 ( Australia, collector Verreaux), and has been labelled by Macquart “ Limnophora / rufipes. ♂. / Macq. n. sp.”. It was listed as the lectotype by Albuquerque (1950a: 246). A ♀ in the Bigot collection in OUMNH, studied by Stein (1907b: 286), is not a syntype .

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The lectotype was redescribed by Albuquerque (1950a: 245, 246, figs 9, 10), who correctly assigned it to the genus Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . I have synonymized L. rufipes with Helina nigritarsis (Macquart, 1847) (see above) ( Pont 1989b: 686), a species with the mid and hind femora wholly yellow. The OUMNH ♀ also appears to be Helina nigritarsis .