Musca lateralis, Macquart, 1834

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 68

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3

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scientific name

Musca lateralis
status

 

lateralis Macquart, 1834 , Musca

Musca lateralis Macquart, 1834a: 22 ( 1834b: 158) (junior primary homonym of Musca lateralis Linnaeus, 1758 ). Lectotype ♀, “environs de Lille” ( France, Lille area), by present designation, in MHNL (also described as a new species in Macquart 1835: 266, “du nord de la France ”).

MATERIAL. — In box G.21 of the Macquart collection in MHNL, I found three specimens over the label “ M. lateralis / L.” (Lille). One of these is a headless calliphorid and is not a syntype. The other two are ♀♀, and are extremely mouldy. One has the right hind leg missing and has obvious yellow patches on the sides of the abdomen: I have labelled this ♀ and designate it herewith as lectotype. The other ♀ has been labelled as paralectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Musca lateralis has always been treated as a junior synonym of Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 ( Bezzi & Stein 1907: 603; Hennig 1964a: 999; Pont 1986b: 90). Although the proepisternal depression is not visible in either lectotype or paralectotype, other characters, such as the buff sides to the abdominal tergites, indicate that this synonymy is correct.

MHNL

Musee Guimet d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Anthomyiidae

Genus

Musca

Loc

Musca lateralis

Pont, Adrian C. 2012
2012
Loc

Musca lateralis

MACQUART P. J. M. 1835: 266
MACQUART P. J. M. 1834: 22
MACQUART P. J. M. 1834: 158
1834
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