Cyrtonevra australis, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 50

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Cyrtonevra australis
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australis Macquart, 1843 View in CoL , Musca

Musca australis Macquart, 1843: 152 ( 1844: 309) , pl. 20, fig. 10 (junior primary homonym of Musca australis Gmelin, 1790 ). Lectotype ♂, “Hobart-Town, dans la Tasmanie ” ( Australia, Tasmania, Hobart), by designation of Pont (1967: 186), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — I have previously discussed the material of this species in MNHN ( Pont 1967: 186). The lectotype is under no. 2391 of the Macquart collection, and there are 4 ♂♂ and 4 ♀♀ paralectotypes with it. The four localities mentioned by Macquart are all represented in this series: îles Salomon ( Solomon Islands), Hobart-town (Tasmania), Viti ( Fiji), and Vanoo (a misreading of Vavao = Vava’u islands, Tonga group, equidistant from Tongatapu and Fiji). The lectotype is rather dirty and mouldy, but all its parts are preserved. It has no accession number, but has a small printed “91” and a label in Le Guillou’s hand “12– Musca / australis [deleted and “oceanica” inserted in pencil] ♂ M. / H: – Hobart-town”.

These nine specimens also form the type series of Musca oceanica Le Guillou, 1842 , and the lectotype of australis has also been designated as the lectotype of oceanica (see Le Guillou 1842; Pont 1973b: 170).

In MHNL, in box G.21 of the Macquart collection, there is 1 ♀ that apparently formed part of Macquart’s syntype series. It has no data or accession disc, but stands over the label “ M. australis / Léguillou Hobartstown”. I have labelled it as a paralectotype of M. oceanica Le Guillou, 1842 and of M. australis Macquart, 1843 .

There are also 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ in BMNH from the Bigot collection, labelled by Macquart and studied by Brauer (1899: 527). These are not syntypes.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Musca australis is a species of Musca Linnaeus, 1758 , with hairs on the proepisternal depression, and is a junior synonym of Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 ( Pont 1973b: 169; Pont 1989b: 678). All the specimens discussed here are conspecific with the lectotype.