Spilogaster binotata, Macquart, 1835

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

binotata Macquart, 1835 , Spilogaster

Spilogaster binotata Macquart, 1835: 295 . Unjustified replacement name for Helina aricioidea Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830.

MATERIAL. — As this is a replacement name, Robineau-Desvoidy’s types of aricioidea are also the types of binotata . Unfortunately, Robineau-Desvoidy’s types are known to have been destroyed, together with the bulk of his Palaearctic Diptera collection ( Evenhuis et al. 2010: 233).

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The name binotata (and aricioidea ) was listed in Mydaea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , s.l., by Bezzi & Stein (1907: 636), but was omitted by Séguy (1937) and Hennig (1955-1964). Robineau-Desvoidy’s description of aricioidea (1830: 493) agrees very well with Helina impuncta (Fallén, 1824) , except that the arista in impuncta is rather longer-haired than Robineau-Desvoidy states for his genus Helina (“la chète, qui est à peine villosule, […]”), but he may well have had a rubbed specimen before him and the other characters he mentions fit extremely well. Helina aricioidea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , and Spilogaster binotata Macquart, 1835 were therefore synonymized with Helina impuncta (Fallén, 1824) ( Pont 1986b: 143) .