Brachygasterina violaceiventris, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 94-95

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Brachygasterina violaceiventris
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violaceiventris Macquart, 1851 View in CoL , Brachygasterina

Brachygasterina violaceiventris Macquart, 1851b: 232 ( 1851d: 259) View in CoL , pl. 23, figs 17, 17a, 17b. Lectotype ♂, “ Chili. M. Gay. Muséum.” ( Chile), by designation of Carvalho & Pont (2006: 15 View Cited Treatment , 16), in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — Described from both sexes from material collected by Gay. There are 1 ♂ and 3 ♀♀ syntypes under no. 1869 of the Macquart collection in MNHN. All four have the accession no. 15.43 ( Chile, collector Gay), and the ♂ is also labelled by Macquart “ Brachygasterina / violaceiventris. / ♂ ♀. Macq. n. g., n. sp.”. All four are rather mouldy and damaged. The ♂ was labelled and designated as lectotype and the 3 ♀♀ as paralectotypes by Carvalho & Pont (2006: 15, 16). The lectotype, in addition to the mould, has left mid leg, left hind leg, and right mid tarsomere 5 missing.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — All four specimens are conspecific, and the species Brachygasterina violaceiventris has been correctly interpreted by modern authors (e.g., Malloch 1934: 338; Carvalho 1989b: 477; Carvalho & Pont 2006: 14-16; Soares & Carvalho 2007: 425).