Microchylum vittatum, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 97

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3

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scientific name

Microchylum vittatum
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vittatum Macquart, 1851 View in CoL , Microchylum

Microchylum vittatum Macquart, 1851b: 230 ( 1851d: 257) View in CoL , pl. 23, figs 11, 11a. Lectotype ♂, “ Brésil. Bahia. Muséum.” ( Brazil, Bahia), by designation of Albuquerque (1950c: 2), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There are 1 ♂ and 3 ♀♀ syntypes under no. 1866 of the Macquart collection in MNHN. Albuquerque (1950c: 2) designated the ♂ as lectotype and the 3 ♀♀ as paralectotypes. As noted by Albuquerque, the lectotype is in poor condition: head mostly eaten away and abdomen squashed ; left hind tarsomeres 4-5, right foreleg and both mid legs missing; left wing detached and glued to a small old tag “35”. It has the accession no. 4.44 ( Brazil, Bahia, collector Verreaux) .

The three paralectotypes are in much better condition. All have the accession no. 4.44, and each has a small tag with the numbers “37”, “38” and “40” respectively.The ♀ with no. 40 also has Macquart’s label “ Microchylum / vittatum. ♂ ♀ / Macq. n. g., n. sp.”.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Albuquerque (1950c: 2, 3, figs 7-10) redescribed the species and placed it in the genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , an assignment with which I agree ( Pont 1972: 29; Carvalho et al. 1993: 99; 2005: 158). It is a species with vein R 1 bare, four postsutural dorsocentrals, sternite 1 bare, arista short-plumose, and mid tibia with one posterior seta placed well in basal half of tibia. Lopes & Couri (1987: 654, figs 28-32) have redescribed the ♂ and illustrated the terminalia.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Microchylum

Loc

Microchylum vittatum

Pont, Adrian C. 2012
2012
Loc

Microchylum vittatum

MACQUART P. J. M. 1851: 230
MACQUART P. J. M. 1851: 257
1851
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