Morellia violacea, Macquart, 1834

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 94

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violacea Macquart, 1834 View in CoL , Lucilia

Lucilia violacea Macquart, 1834a: 31 ( 1834b: 167) (junior secondary homonym in Pyrellia View in CoL of Pyrellia violacea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 View in CoL ). Lectotype ♀, “environs de Lille” ( France, Lille area), by present designation, in MHNL (also described as a new species in Macquart 1835: 258, “du nord de la France ”).

MATERIAL. — There is one syntype extant, in box G of the Macquart collection in MHNL, though Hennig (1963d: 952, 953) reported that in response to his enquiries no types could be found. It is a fragment, evidently a ♀, lacking head and abdomen. The drawer label reads “P. / violacea. / Macq. Lille.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype. CURRENT IDENTITY. — Séguy (1937: 399) identified Lucilia violacea as Pyrellia serena (Meigen, 1826) (now called Pyrellia rapax (Harris, 1780)) , whilst Hennig (1963d: 952) synonymized it with some hesitation with Eudasyphora cyanicolor (Zetterstedt, 1845) . The lectotype has an entirely shining scutum, and Lucilia violacea is a junior synonym of Pyrellia vivida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ( Pont 1986b: 103) .

References

HENNIG W. 1963 d. - Family Muscidae, in LINDNER E. (ed.), Die Fliegen der palaarktischen Region 63 b. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, Lfg 242: 913 - 960.

MACQUART P. J. M. 1834 a. - Insectes dipteres du nord de la France. Tome V. Athericeres: creophiles, oestrides, myopaires, conopsaires, scenopiniens, cephalopsides. L. Danel, Paris, 232 p. [Published 21. vii. 1834: see Evenhuis 1997: 510. This is a preprint of the journal version of 1834 b.]

MACQUART P. J. M. 1834 b. - Insectes dipteres du nord de la France. Athericeres: creophiles, oestrides, myopaires, conopsaires, scenopiniens, cephalopsides. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts a Lille 1833: 137 - 368. [Published 1. x. 1834: see Evenhuis 1997: 510.]

MACQUART P. J. M. 1835. - Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Ouvrage accompagne de planches. Tome deuxieme. N. E. Roret, Paris, 703 or 710 p. [Published 1. iv. 1835: see Evenhuis 1997: 512. This work forms part of a series of volumes edited by N. E. Roret and entitled Nouvelles suites a Buffon, formant, avec les oeuvres de cet auteur, un cours complet d'histoire naturelle. Collection accompagnee de planches. The pages with the additions and corrections to volumes 1 and 2 vary in number and are not always numbered: one copy in the BMNH stops at page 703, with two further unnumbered pages with errata, whilst the second copy and the OUMNH copy both continue to page 710. A separate livraison contains the plates and accompanying legend on eight pages. The plates may be coloured or uncoloured.]

PONT A. C. 1986 b. - Family Muscidae, in SOOS A. & PAPP L. (eds), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, volume 11, Scathophagidae - Hypodermatidae. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest: 57 - 215.

SEGUY E. 1937. - Diptera fam. Muscidae, in WYTSMAN P. (ed.), Genera Insectorum 205. Desmet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles: 604 p.