Musca pusilla, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 82

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3

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scientific name

Musca pusilla
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pusilla Macquart, 1851 , Musca

Musca pusilla Macquart, 1851b: 226 ( 1851d: 253) (junior primary homonym of Musca pusilla Gmelin, 1790 ). Lectotype ♂, “de l’Égypte. M. Bigot.” ( Egypt), by present designation, in OUMNH.

MATERIAL. — Described from both sexes from Bigot’s collection. In that part of the Bigot collection now in OUMNH there are four syntypes, which were seen by Brauer (1899: 527), and a fifth syntype (♀) has been located in MHNL. The OUMNH syntypes consist of 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, and one very damaged specimen that is probably ♂. There are no data labels, but the good ♂ has Macquart’s label “ Musca / pusilla / ♂ ♀. Macq. n. sp.”, and they stand over Bigot’s drawer label “ M. pusilla . 2 ♂ s. 2 ♀ s. / J. Bigot. invenit 1847 / Egyptus. Macq.”. The ♂ with Macquart’s label has been labelled and is designated herewith as lectotype, and the remaining syntypes (1 ♂ and 2 ♀♀ in OUMNH, 1 ♀ in MHNL) have been labelled as paralectotypes. The lectotype is not fully hardened ; legs twisted and head rather shrunken; left mid leg missing, but tarsomeres stuck to pin; right foretarsomeres 3-5 and right hind tarsomeres 3-5 missing. The MHNL ♀, in box G.21 of the Macquart collection, is labelled “ M. pusilla . n. / Égypte. Bigot.” .

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The lectotype is a ♂ of the Musca sorbens Wiedemann, 1830 complex with a relatively broad frons, and the name M. pusilla Macquart, 1851 , is therefore a junior synonym of Musca sorbens ( Pont 1986b: 92) . The ♂ paralectotype is Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 , whilst the 3 ♀♀ paralectotypes are all Musca sorbens .

MHNL

Musee Guimet d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Anthomyiidae

Genus

Musca

Loc

Musca pusilla

Pont, Adrian C. 2012
2012
Loc

Musca pusilla

MACQUART P. J. M. 1851: 226
MACQUART P. J. M. 1851: 253
1851
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