Morellia (M.) hortorum ( Fallén, 1817 ), Fallen, 1817

Pamplona, Denise, Nihei, Silvio S., Couri, Márcia S. & Pont, Adrian C., 2016, Taxonomy of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae): revision of the subgenera Morellia s. str. and Parapyrellia Townsend, Zootaxa 4163 (1), pp. 1-110 : 44-47

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Morellia (M.) hortorum ( Fallén, 1817 )
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18. Morellia (M.) hortorum ( Fallén, 1817) View in CoL

( Figs 64–70 View FIGURES 64 – 70 )

Musca hortorum Fallén, 1817: 252 . Type locality: SWEDEN, probably Skåne province. Lectotype Ƌ, NHRS (des. Pont 1984: 286; seen).

Anthomyia hortorum Wiedemann, 1817: 83 . [Junior secondary homonym, preocc. in Morellia View in CoL by Musca hortorum Fallén, 1817 .] Type locality: GERMANY, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel district. Lectotype ♂, NHMW (des. Pont 1997: 98; seen).

Sarcophaga obscura Meigen, 1826: 32 View in CoL , plate 248, fig. 2. Type locality: not stated (GERMANY, probably Hamburg). Holotype Ƌ, not located in NHMW and presumed destroyed ( Pont 1986b: 234).

Morellia agilis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 405 View in CoL . Type locality: FRANCE, Saint-Sauveur. Syntypes, formerly in Robineau- Desvoidy collection, now destroyed (not MNHN; see Evenhuis et al. 2010).

Morellia horticola Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 405 View in CoL . Type locality: FRANCE, Saint-Sauveur. Syntypes, formerly in Robineau- Desvoidy collection, now destroyed (not MNHN; see Evenhuis et al. 2010).

Morellia concolor Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 406 View in CoL . Type locality: FRANCE, Saint-Sauveur. Syntypes, formerly in Robineau- Desvoidy collection, now destroyed (not MNHN; see Evenhuis et al. 2010).

Curtonevra caerulescens Macquart, 1834a: 12 View in CoL ; 1834b: 148. Unjustified replacement name for Morellia horticola View in CoL Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830.

Musca (Morellia) importuna Haliday, 1836: 149 . Type locality: NORTHERN IRELAND, County Down, Holywood. Lectotype ♂, ZMHB (des. Pont & Werner 2006: 56; seen).

Anthomyia nitens Wiedemann in Gistel, 1857: 73 . Unavailable name, published in synonymy with Musca hortorum Fallén [as " Anth. hortorum ( nitens mihi) Fall."], and not validated subsequently. Locality: GERMANY, Hessen, Ofleiden: 1 Ƌ, NHMW (see Pont 1997: 106).

Cyrtoneura pilipes Rondani, 1862: 215 View in CoL . Type locality: ITALY, hills of the Parma province, Etruria and Brescia. Syntypes: ƋƋ, MZLS.

Alina pilipes Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 640 . [Junior secondary homonym, preocc. in Morellia View in CoL by Cyrtoneura pilipes Rondani, 1862 .] Type locality: FRANCE, Paris district. Holotype/syntypes Ƌ, formerly in Robineau-Desvoidy collection, now destroyed (not MNHN; see Evenhuis et al. 2010).

Morellia setoaenescens Sychevskaya, 1963: 182 . Nomen nudum; Zimin MS name, included in list of species from Karetigin (Gamsk) as " setoaenescens Zim. (in litt)". No material found in ZIN ( Pont 2004: 90).

Redescription. Colour. Black, with grey pruinosity. Frontal vitta and upper half of fronto-orbital plate black; face and lower half of fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and antenna black with silver pruinosity; gena with grey pruinosity; palpus brown; mesonotum metallic black with one silver dusted central vitta along presutural acrostichals, postpronotal lobe, notopleuron and other pleura silver pruinose; legs dark brown; haltere with brown stalk and yellow knob; calypters yellowish-white, upper calypter on outer half white and opaque; wing without dark markings; abdomen with a shifting tessellated pattern and with silver pruinosity ventrally.

Male. Body length: 8.0–9.0 mm; wing length: 7.0–8.0 mm.

Head. Eyes bare but with the usual minute and scattered hairs, separated at level of anterior ocellus by 0.20– 0.25 of head width; frons divergent towards lunule; ocellar triangle with a pair of strong setae and many long setulae; 20–21 pairs of frontal setae; postpedicel about 1.3–1.6 times the length of pedicel; pedicel with 2 setae and few setulae; arista plumose, with 17–19 cilia, bare apicad, and with some secondary plumes as far as level of 4th to 6th cilia; vibrissa longer than arista; 1 strong supravibrissal seta, more than half the length of vibrissa, and many other long setulae that extend to level of middle of postpedicel; 6–7 subvibrissal setae followed by 7–8 genal setae.

Thorax. Acrostichals 0+1; dorsocentrals 3+4; intra-alars 1+1; presutural 1; prealar 1, weak; supra-alars 2; postpronotals 3; notopleuron with 2 long subequal setae and covered with ground-setulae; postalars 2; intrapostalar 1; scutellum with 1 basal, 1 latero-discal and 1 apical pairs of setae, and latero-ventrally with many setae, the basalmost ones downcurved; postalar wall bare; suprasquamal ridge bare; proepisternal depression bare; proepimeron with about 5 long setae and many setulae; prosternum broad and bare; anepisternum with a posterior row of about 10 setae, with 3–4 weak setae upcurved on upper-anterior corner, and covered with long setulae; katepisternals 1+2; anepimeron extensively setulose; katepimeron with 1 setula; anatergite bare; katatergite setulose. Legs: fore femur with a posterodorsal row of setae on apical two-thirds becoming shorter basad, a complete posteroventral row of setae, and some complete ventral rows of long, strong, also fine setae; fore tibia with a dorsal row of short setae on apical two-thirds, 3 strong and long posterior setae at middle, the lowermost one almost posteroventral, some fine and long posteroventral setae on apical half, the lowermost one stronger, a brushlike ctenidium of many fine setae on ventral surface, one anterodorsal and one dorsal preapical setae, and one posteroventral and one ventral apical setae; fore tarsus with about 4 setae at base and a golden brush ventrally; mid femur without a tubercle, with no anterior seta, an anterodorsal row of setae on basal two-thirds, a row of some short ventral setae on basal half, some strong and very short anterodorsal to dorsal setae and 7 stronger posterior to posterodorsal preapical setae; mid tibia with an anterodorsal comb-like row of short setulae on basal two-thirds, of which those in the apical third are more scattered and longer, with 3 short posterodorsals on middle third, 4 strong posterior setae on basal two-thirds, 1 strong posteroventral seta on apical third, one anterodorsal, one dorsal and one posterodorsal apical setae, one anteroventral, one posteroventral and one ventral apical setae; hind femur with an anteroventral row of setae, strongest on apical third, an anterodorsal row of setae, a group of posterior setulae at base, 4–5 posterior setae on apical third, and few posteroventral setulae on apical fourth; hind tibia with about 7–10 short and subequal anteroventral setae on apical half, an anterodorsal row of short and strong setae on basal half, with one stronger seta at middle, a dorsal row of short but strong setulae, 1 strong and long posterodorsal seta on apical third, 2–4 long posterior setae on basal third, 1 anterodorsal, 1 dorsal and 1 posterodorsal preapical setae, and 1 anteroventral and no posteroventral apical setae; hind tarsus without modifications in shape or bristling. Wing with a uniform covering of microtrichia; dm-cu almost sinuous; stem-vein bare on dorsal surface, and ventrally with about 2 short setulae before humeral cross-vein and bare after humeral cross-vein; R2+3 bare on dorsal and ventral surfaces; R4+5 setulose from base to halfway or almost all the way to r-m on dorsal surface and at base or basal third on ventral surface; 5–6 strong setae on basicosta.

Abdomen. With lateral tufts of setulae; tergites 4 and 5 with long setae apically; sternite 1 setulose; posterior margin of sternite 5 concave and with a few setae on membrane ( Fig. 64 View FIGURES 64 – 70 ).

Terminalia. Outer middle third of cercal plate not convex; cercal plate with some spines ventrally; surstylus with some short setulae and 2 longer setae ( Figs 65–67 View FIGURES 64 – 70 ); aedeagus with spicules on anterior membrane of distiphallus; gonopod with 2 long and strong setae on basal third and one seta apically; paramere with many setae apically and some setulae on middle third ( Fig. 68 View FIGURES 64 – 70 ).

Female. Body length: 7.0– 7.5 mm; wing length: 6.0–7.0 mm.

Similar to male, differing as follows: eyes separated at level of anterior ocellus by 0.44–0.46 of head width; fronto-orbital plate with 3–4 proclinate and 1 reclinate setae; about 10–11 frontal setae; fore femur without ventral rows, instead with a brush of strong and short setulae on ventral surface; fore tibia with a row of strong ventral setulae, without the posterior and posteroventral setae; mid femur with weaker posteroventral setae, without anterodorsal to dorsal and with 4 posterodorsal to posterior preapical setae; mid tibia without the anteroventral comb; hind femur with weaker setae, about 3 posterior setulae at base; with 4 anterodorsal setae, the middle one stronger.

Ovipositor. Tergite 6 rod-like and shaped as 2 anchors, posteriorly with setae and 2 plates with setae; tergite 7 rod-like, anteriorly curved, posteriorly with 2 plates with many setulae; tergite 8 like 2 broad rods, posteriorly with 2 plates with setae; sternite 6 a single rod, posteriorly with 1 plate with setae; sternite 7 a single rod, posteriorly with 3 plates with many setae; sternite 8 with 2 rods, posteriorly with 2 small plates with setae; epiproct with 4 setae; hypoproct longer than broad with many setae; cercus cylindrical and long ( Figs 69–70 View FIGURES 64 – 70 ).

Material examined. SWEDEN: probably Skåne province, lectotype Ƌ of Musca hortorum Fallén ( NHRS) ; Västmanland, Nora District , 1km NW Sund, 21.vi.1986 , A. C. Pont, 1 Ƌ and 1 ♀ ( BMNH) ; GERMANY: Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel district , lectotype Ƌ of Anthomyia hortorum Wiedemann ( NHMW) ; Hessen, Ofleiden , 1 Ƌ, as “ Anthomyia nitens Wiedemann ” ( NHMW) ; NORTHERN IRELAND: County Down, Holywood , lectotype Ƌ of Musca importuna Haliday ( ZMHB) ; GEORGIA: Greater Caucasus Mts, Kazbegi , 5.vii.1983 , A.C. Pont, 1 Ƌ ( BMNH) ; AUSTRIA: Lower Austria, Wienerwald, Kaltenleutgeben , 25.vii.1981 , A.C. Pont, 1 ♀ ( BMNH) .

Distribution. PALAEARCTIC: throughout the region, from Sweden to Spain, east to China and Japan (Hokkaïdo).

NHRS

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Morellia

Loc

Morellia (M.) hortorum ( Fallén, 1817 )

Pamplona, Denise, Nihei, Silvio S., Couri, Márcia S. & Pont, Adrian C. 2016
2016
Loc

Morellia setoaenescens

Pont 2004: 90
Sychevskaya 1963: 182
1963
Loc

Alina pilipes

Robineau-Desvoidy 1863: 640
1863
Loc

Cyrtoneura pilipes

Rondani 1862: 215
1862
Loc

Anthomyia nitens Wiedemann in Gistel, 1857 : 73

Pont 1997: 106
Gistel 1857: 73
1857
Loc

Musca (Morellia) importuna

Pont 2006: 56
Haliday 1836: 149
1836
Loc

Curtonevra caerulescens

Macquart 1834: 12
1834
Loc

Morellia agilis

Robineau-Desvoidy 1830: 405
1830
Loc

Morellia horticola

Robineau-Desvoidy 1830: 405
1830
Loc

Morellia concolor

Robineau-Desvoidy 1830: 406
1830
Loc

Sarcophaga obscura

Pont 1986: 234
Meigen 1826: 32
1826
Loc

Musca hortorum Fallén, 1817 : 252

Pont 1984: 286
Fallen 1817: 252
1817
Loc

Anthomyia hortorum

Pont 1997: 98
Wiedemann 1817: 83
1817
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