Chortophila frontalis, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 64

frontalis Macquart, 1843 , Musca

Musca frontalis Macquart, 1843: 151 ( 1844: 308) , pl. 21, fig. 3 (not fig. 1, as stated) (junior primary homonym of Musca frontalis Latreille, 1802 ). Lectotype ♂, “d’Alger. Ma collection.” ( Algeria, Algiers), by present designation, in MHNL.

MATERIAL. — Macquart described this species from material in his own collection, and there is 1 ♂ syntype in MHNL, in box G.21 of the Macquart collection. It stands over the label “ M. frontalis . / Guyon. Alger.”. It is rather mouldy, but is otherwise remarkably well preserved. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — This is a species of Musca Linnaeus, 1758 , but the proepisternal depression cannot be seen. However, the comparatively broad frons and the 4-vittate scutum indicate that this can only be Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 , as was first suggested by Patton (1922: 417) and more recently stated by Pont (1986b: 91).