Myospila bimaculata, Macquart, 1834

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 51

bimaculata Macquart, 1834 , Curtonevra

Curtonevra bimaculata Macquart, 1834a: 13 ( 1834b: 149) . Lectotype ♂, “environs de Lille” ( France, Lille area), by present designation, in MHNL.

MATERIAL. — Described from an unspecified number of ♂♂. There is 1 ♂ syntype in box G.22 of the Macquart collection in MHNL, over a Macquart label “ C. bimaculata / nob. / L.” (“L.” is probably Lille). It is mouldy and has the right mid leg missing. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The name bimaculata has usually been listed as an unrecognized species of Graphomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (e.g., Bezzi & Stein 1907: 599; Hennig 1959: 239), but the description clearly indicates a species of Myospila Rondani, 1856 . The lectotype has proved to be identical with, and an older name for, Myospila hennigi Gregor & Povolný, 1959 ( Pont 1986b: 159) . Despite the mould on the head, it is possible to see that the arista is shorter plumose than in Myospila meditabunda (Fabricius, 1781) , with the longest individual plumes equal to width of postpedicel; the discal row of setae on tergite 4 is not interrupted medially; and mid tibia has no anterodorsal and three posterodorsal setae (see Gregor 1968; Gregor et al. 2002: 153).