Morellia micans, Macquart, 1855

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 73-74

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scientific name	Morellia micans
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micans Macquart, 1855 View in CoL , Cyrtonevra

Cyrtonevra micans Macquart, 1855a: 136 ( 1855b: 116) View in CoL . Lectotype ♀, “de l’Amérique septentrionale. Baltimore.

M. Bigot.” ( USA, Maryland, Baltimore), by present designation, in BMNH.

MATERIAL. — There is one syntype in that part of the Bigot collection now in the BMNH. Left hind leg, right mid tarsomeres 4-5, right hind tarsomeres 3-5, and right wing missing, otherwise it is in good condition. It is labelled by Macquart “ Cyrtonevra / micans / ♀. Macq. n. sp.”, and stands over Bigot’s drawer label “ C. micans . ♀. / Baltimor. Macq.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

Brauer (1899: 526) noted that the series of micans in the Bigot collection was mixed, that the ♂ was a species of Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , and the ♀ a species of Cyrtoneura Macquart, 1834 . The ♂ is from the Rocky Mountains and is clearly not a syntype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Cyrtonevra micans is a good species of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ( Huckett 1965a: 326; 1965b: 912). The Rocky Mountains ♂ is a species of Graphomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

References

BRAUER F. 1899. - Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Muscaria schizometopa. Bemerkungen zu den Originalexemplaren der von Bigot, Macquart und Robineau- Desvoidy beschriebenen Muscaria schizometopa aus der Sammlung des Herrn G. H. Verrall. Dritte Folge. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Wien 108: 495 - 529.

HUCKETT H. C. 1965 a. - The Muscidae of Northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Diptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 42, 369 p.

HUCKETT H. C. 1965 b. - Family Muscidae, in STONE A., SABROSKY C. W., WIRTH W. W., FOOTE R. H. & COULSON J. R. (eds), A catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. Agricultural Handbook, United States Department of Agriculture 276: 869 - 915.

MACQUART P. J. M. 1855 a. - Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 5 e Supplement. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts a Lille (2) 1: 25 - 156. [Dated 1854, published 18. viii. 1855: see Evenhuis 1997: 514.]

MACQUART P. J. M. 1855 b. - Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 5 e Supplement. N. E. Roret, Paris, 136 p. [Publication date 31. xii. 1855: see Evenhuis 1997: 514. This is a reprint of journal version of 1855 a.]