Musca analis, Macquart, 1846

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 48

analis Macquart, 1846 , Ophyra

Ophyra analis Macquart, 1846a: 330 ( 1846b: 202) , pl. 17, fig. 15. Lectotype ♂, “De la Tasmanie, Muséum.” ( Australia, Tasmania), by designation of Pont (1967: 183), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — I have previously discussed the MNHN material of this species ( Pont 1967: 183). The lectotype is under no. 2404 of the Macquart collection. The lectotype lacks the right foreleg, but is otherwise in excellent condition. With it are the 9 ♂♂ and 10 ♀♀ paralectotypes designated with the lectotype. Further, non-typical, material has been moved to the Collection générale. 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ paralectotypes are in BMNH, received by exchange with MNHN in 1924.

Macquart (1850c: 534, as “ anolis ”) recorded this species as present in the MHNL collection. I found 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ syntypes in his collection in MHNL, which I have labelled as paralectotypes. They do not have the MNHN pink accession discs, but were presumably duplicates from the type-series retained by Macquart. They are labelled by him “O. / analis. / Macq. Tasm.”.

In the Bigot collection in OUMNH, there are 6 ♂♂ and 5 ♀♀ of this species ( Stein 1907a: 210). One of the ♂♂ is labelled by Macquart “ Ophyra / analis. ♂ ♀ / Macq. n. sp.”. However, as Macquart described this species from MNHN material and not from Bigot’s collection, and as in 1846 he was not yet employing the “n. sp.” rubric on labels for his newly-described species, I do not regard these as additional material from the type-series. Note that there also are specimens of O. analis in MNHN that are labelled by Macquart as “n. sp.” but which, according to their MNHN accession numbers, cannot have been syntypes.

There is 1 ♀ from the Macquart collection in the USNM, exchanged with R. C. Shannon and acquired with his collection. It still has the MNHN disc with accession no. “4.46” (Tasmania, collector Verreaux), and is not a syntype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The name analis is a junior synonym of Australophyra rostrata (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) (see Pont 1973b: 250). All the specimens discussed here belong to Australophyra rostrata .