Aricia flavicornis, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 62

flavicornis Macquart, 1843 , Curtonevra

Curtonevra flavicornis Macquart, 1843: 156 ( 1844: 313) , pl. 21, figs 8, 8a. Lectotype ♂, “de l’île de France. Collection de M. Guérin et la mienne.” ( Mauritius), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — Described from ♂♂ in Guérin-Méneville’s collection and Macquart’s collection. There are 4 ♂♂ syntypes under no. 985 of the Macquart collection in MNHN. They are each labelled “Coll. Guévin-[sic] Méneville 1871”, “ Île Maurice ”, and an old hand-written tag “8”. The 1st ♂ is labelled by Macquart “ Curtonevra / flavicornis”. It should be noted that the spelling of “ Curtonevra ” matches that in the published description exactly, whilst Macquart also omitted “n. sp.” on the label as was his habit until after the early supplements to the Diptères Exotiques (see also the next species). This ♂ is in excellent condition, with only the left antenna missing. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype. The remaining 3 ♂♂ have been labelled as paralectotypes. There is also a ♂ syntype in the BMNH, exchanged with MNHN in 1924. This has the same three labels mentioned above. I have labelled it as paralectotype.

There is a further ♂ syntype in box G.22 of the Macquart collection in MHNL, over the label “ C. flavicornis / Isle de France ”. This does not have the two printed MNHN labels, but it does have the old hand-written number “8”. I have labelled it as paralectotype.

In the same series in MNHN, there is a ♀ labelled in the same way as the 4 ♂♂, but as Macquart only mentioned ♂♂ in his description, this cannot be a syntype. There is also a ♂ labelled “Desjardins / Madagascar (?)”, which is not a syntype as Desjardins is not mentioned as a collector of the original material.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — All 6 syntypes are conspecific, and the name Curtonevra flavicornis is a junior synonym

of Dimorphia cognata (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) as currently understood ( Emden 1951: 655, as flavicornis ; Pont 1980: 745).