Anthomyia subnitida, Macquart, 1851

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 90

subnitida Macquart, 1851 , Anthomyia

Anthomyia subnitida Macquart, 1851b: 238 ( 1851d: 265) . Lectotype ♀, “de Jérusalem. M. Bigot.” ( Israel, Jerusalem), by present designation, in OUMNH.

MATERIAL. — Collected by Bigot, the single syntype is in his collection in OUMNH. It is rubbed, and the wings are rather twisted and dirty ; left antenna and left hind leg missing. It is labelled by Macquart “ Anthomyia / subnitida / ♀. Macq. n. sp.”, and stands over Bigot’s drawer label “ A. subnitida . ♀. / Jerusalem. Macq.”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype .

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Stein (1907b: 288) studied this specimen and identified it as Fannia scalaris (Fabricius, 1794) , and subsequent authors have accepted this synonymy ( Hennig 1955b: 81; Chillcott 1961: 62). When Stein was active, however, no characters were known for the satisfactory separation of ♀♀ of F. scalaris and Fannia incisurata (Zetterstedt, 1838) . Fresh study of the lectotype of Anthomyia subnitida has shown that it is actually a ♀ of F. incisurata , and this synonymy was published by Pont (1986a: 48). It has the upper post-ocular setulae in two rows and the parafacial broader, both of which features are diagnostic for ♀♀ of Fannia incisurata according to d’Assis-Fonseca (1968: 99).