Bolitophila nana ( Macquart, 1826 )

Falaschi, Rafaela Lopes & Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira, 2012, A catalogue of the types of Bolitophilidae and Ditomyiidae (Diptera, Bibionomorpha) in the collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Zoosystema 34 (3), pp. 521-524 : 522

Bolitophila nana ( Macquart, 1826)

Macrocera nana Macquart, 1826: 54 (original description).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Northern France.

TYPE WITH LABELS. — (1) Handwritten on white paper: “160”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ France | Nord | Macquart”; (3) printed on red paper: “ TYPE ”; (4) handwritten on white paper: “ Macrocera | nana”.

PRESERVATION. — Pinned exemplar, very damaged, with a wing and an undetermined leg glued on the paper rectangle. Missing parts: abdomen and one wing.

REMARKS

As pointed out by Bechev & Chandler (2011), Bolitophila nana is a nomem dubium, as the type of Macrocera nana is an unidentifiable Bolitophila species. According with these authors, the type is likely to be in Macquart’s collection in the Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de la ville de Lille (MHNL), Lille, France, but this has not been confirmed. The authors visited the MNHN collection and the type is allocated in this collection.

Regarding to Bolitophilidae collection, the type of Bolitophila (Bolitophila) cinerea Meigen, 1818 , should be allocated at MNHN. During the visit to the collection, the authors did not find the type so, as mentioned by Bechev & Chandler (2011), the type probably is lost. Moreover, there are specimens of B. (Bolitophila) austriaca (Mayer, 1950) and B. (Cliopisa) bispinosa Mayer, 1951 in the collection, but both the holotypes are deposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna(NMW) ( Bechev & Chandler 2011). The specimens from MNHN have red labels printed with the term “ allotype ”, determined by Matile (specifically for B. (Bolitophila) austriaca see Matile 1976). As additional namebearing type material can never be added after the original description and the term “ allotype ” just may be used to indicate a specimen of opposite sex to the holotype, no name-bearing function (ICZN 1999: 72A), these specimens were not considered here.