Ocyptamus funebris Macquart, 1834

Mengual, Ximo, Miranda, Gil Felipe G. & Thompson, F. Christian, 2018, Unraveling Ocyptamus and the Baccha legacy (Diptera: Syrphidae): redefinition of groups and new species descriptions, Zootaxa 4461 (1), pp. 1-44 : 23

Ocyptamus funebris Macquart, 1834

Ocyptamus funebris Macquart, 1834: 554 . Type-locality: Brazil [LT ♂ UMO] . Lectotype ♂ here designated.

Syrphus iridipennis Walker, 1836: 345 . Type-locality: South America [T ♂ BMNH]. Synonymy by Thompson et al. 1976: 18.

Baccha bromleyi Curran, 1929: 490 . Type-locality: Cuba, Santiago, Las Vegas [HT ♂ AMNH]. New synonym.

Baccha prunella Hull, 1943b: 72 . Type-locality: Brazil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia [HT ♂ AMNH]. Synonymy by Reemer (2010: 183).

Ocyptamus bromleyi . Thompson et al. (1976: 14).

Ocyptamus prunella . Thompson et al. (1976: 26).

Comments. Ocyptamus funebris Macquart was described based on an unknown number of specimens from Brasil found in the collection of M. Serville in Paris. Later, Bigot acquired the Macquart collection, which contained the Serville collection. In the Verrall-Collin Collection at the UMO, there are five specimens associated with the Bigot’s label of O. funebris Macquart. Four of the specimens are without heads and otherwise damaged. The lone intact male is here designated lectotype and has been so labeled.

Hull (1949a) wrongly portrayed the reddish areas of the abdomen of Baccha bromleyi Curran, 1929 as completely yellow in his drawing ( Hull 1949a: 131, pl. XVI: fig. 123). This could lead one to confuse the abdominal markings of this taxon with those of O. megafemur Thompson sp. n.