Lucilia brevigaster, Macquart, 1835

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 52

brevigaster Macquart, 1835 , Lucilia

Lucilia brevigaster Macquart, 1835: 256 . Syntype (s) ♂ (♂), “de Java”, formerly in MNHL, now destroyed.

MATERIAL. — Macquart described this species from an unspecified number of ♂♂, which were subsequently stated to be in his collection ( Macquart 1843: 140 [ 1844: 297], “de Java. Ma collection.”). In box G.21 of the Macquart collection in MHNL, there is a label for this species reading “ L. brevigaster . / nob. Java.”. Over this, there is a long pin with the number “41”, but the specimen itself has been destroyed.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Aubertin (1933: 427) also did not see the type but she doubted whether this was a true Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . In my opinion, the description refers to a muscid greenbottle and can only be Neomyia timorensis (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) , a common Oriental species, and the name Lucilia brevigaster is formally synonymized with Neomyia timorensis (n. syn.). The name is not listed in the Catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region ( Delfinado & Hardy 1977) because the calliphorid contributor, M. T. James, thought it was a species of Muscidae and I thought it was a species of Calliphoridae .