Lucilia viridiceps, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 95

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Lucilia viridiceps
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viridiceps Macquart, 1851 , Lucilia

Lucilia viridiceps Macquart, 1851b: 222 ( 1851d: 249) . Lectotype ♀, “ Nouvelle-Hollande, côte orientale. Muséum.” ( Australia, east coast), by designation of Pont (1973b: 198), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There is 1 ♀ syntype in MNHN, under no. 2380 of the Macquart collection. It has been staged on card, and it is rather mouldy ; right foreleg and right mid leg missing. The labels include a pink disc with the accession no. 2.47 ( Australia, collector Verreaux), and Macquart’s label “ Lucilia / viridiceps / ♀. Macq. n. sp.”. In my revision of Australian Muscinae, I referred to it as the holotype, and this statement must be interpreted as lectotype designation by inference .

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The lectotype was studied by Aubertin (1932: 141; 1933: 431) and by Pont (1973b: 198), and the name Lucilia viridiceps Macquart, 1851 , has been synonymized with Neomyia timorensis (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) .