Helina rufiguttata, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 85

rufiguttata Macquart, 1851 , Aricia

Aricia rufiguttata Macquart, 1851b: 231 ( 1851d: 258) , pl. 23, fig. 16. Lectotype ♂, “ Brésil. Bahia.” ( Brazil, Bahia), by designation of Albuquerque (1951: 4), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — Macquart did not state where his material of A. rufiguttata was deposited, but in MNHN there is 1 ♀ under no. 1867 of the Macquart collection which is clearly a syntype. It is in very good condition, with just one tarsomere (left mid leg) missing. It has an old hand-written tag “7” ; the accession no. 4.44 ( Brazil, Bahia, collector Verreaux) ; and Macquart’s label “ Aricia / rufoguttata. [sic] / ♀. Macq. n. sp.”. It was listed as the lectotype by Albuquerque (1951: 4) .

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The lectotype was redescribed by Albuquerque (1951: 1-4, figs 1-7) who placed it in the genus Airalips Snyder, 1949 (now a synonym of Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ). Since then, Aricia rufiguttata has been redescribed and the terminalia of both sexes illustrated by Albuquerque & Lopes (1979: 520-523, figs 1-8), and the name Spilogaster plumata Stein, 1904 was placed as a junior synonym of A. rufiguttata (see also Carvalho et al. 1993: 66). The species is now placed in the genus Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ( Carvalho et al. 2005: 122).