Lucilia scutellata, Macquart, 1834

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 89

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Lucilia scutellata
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scutellata Macquart, 1834 , Lucilia

Lucilia scutellata Macquart, 1834a: 30 ( 1834b: 166) . Syntype (s) ♀ (♀), “environs de Lille” ( France, Lille area), formerly in MHNL, now destroyed (also described as a new species in Macquart 1835: 256, “du nord de la France ”).

MATERIAL. — Described from an unspecified number of ♀♀. In box G.21 of the Macquart collection in MHNL, there is a label reading “ L. scutellata nob. / L. [Lille]”, but there are no specimens and the type-series is presumed to have been destroyed.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The name has been synonymized with Orthellia cornicina (Fabricius, 1781) (a species for which the correct name is now Neomyia viridescens (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)) in the standard works ( Bezzi & Stein 1907: 609; Hennig 1963d: 933; Pont 1986b: 101), and there is no reason to dispute this synonymy.