Cyrtonevra flavicornis, Macquart, 1848

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 62-63

flavicornis Macquart, 1848 , Pyrellia

Pyrellia flavicornis Macquart, 1848a: 218 ( 1848b: 58) , pl. 6, fig. 11. Lectotype ♀, “du Brésil. Collection de M. Bigot” ( Brazil), by present designation, in BMNH.

MATERIAL. — The syntype is in that part of the Bigot collection now in the BMNH. It is dirty and rather mouldy ; posterior part of pleura on the right side eaten away; left wing and right mid leg missing. It is labelled by Macquart “ Pyrellia / flavicornis / ♀. nov. sp.”, and stands over Bigot’s drawer label “ P. flavicornis . ♀. / Brazil. Macq.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype .

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Pyrellia flavicornis has been used as the valid name for the species of Morellia Robineau-

Desvoidy, 1830, previously known as Morellia ochrifacies (Rondani, 1850) (see Pont 1972: 8; Pamplona 1986: 648). However, the valid name for this species is now Morellia violacea (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) ( Carvalho et al. 1993: 13; 2005: 20). Morellia violacea was formerly treated as a junior secondary homonym of Musca violacea Fabricius, 1805 (references in Pont 1972: 8, 9), but the type of M. violacea Fabricius,1805 has subsequently been examined and the name transferred to the family Calliphoridae ( Michelsen 1979: 191) so that this homonymy no longer exists and the name Morellia violacea (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) can be used for this species.