Dichaetomyia bicolor, Macquart, 1855

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n1a3
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scientific name	Dichaetomyia bicolor
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Treatment

bicolor Macquart, 1855 View in CoL , Aricia

Aricia bicolor Macquart, 1855a: 137 ( 1855b: 117) , pl. 6, fig. 14. Lectotype ♀, Africa (not “du Brésil?”, as stated by Macquart), by present designation, in OUMNH.

MATERIAL. — This was described from “ Brésil ”, from Bigot’s collection, and there is 1 ♀ syntype in that part of the Bigot collection in OUMNH. The body is damp and the right antenna missing, but otherwise it is in good condition. It is labelled by Macquart “ Aricia / bicolor / ♀. Macq”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Stein (1907a: 214) redescribed the type and expressed doubts about its alleged Brazilian origin. In fact, it belongs to the subgenus Panaga Curran, 1928 , of Dichaetomyia Malloch, 1921 , an exclusively Afrotropical subgenus, and so the locality given by Macquart is clearly incorrect ( Pont 1972: 60; 1980: 740). Dichaetomyia bicolor is apparently a good species, close to Dichaetomyia cuthbertsoni Emden, 1942 .