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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0387879B-FF8F-FFF2-D1FA-F9FBFDE29647
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scientific name	Morellia micans
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Treatment

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 .