Caenosia basilaris, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 50-51

basilaris Macquart, 1843 , Musca

Musca basilaris Macquart, 1843: 153 ( 1844: 310) . Lectotype ♀, “du Brésil. Muséum.” ( Brazil), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There is 1 ♀ syntype under no. 1861 of the Macquart collection. It has the accession no. 2573.33 ( Brazil, collector Gaudichaud), and is labelled by Macquart “258.” and “basilaris.”. It is rather dirty ; right wing torn and loose; left mid and left hind tarsomeres, right hind tarsomeres 2-5, and abdomen missing. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The lectotype has hairs on the proepisternal depression, and the name Musca basilaris is a junior synonym of Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 (see Pont 1972: 7; Carvalho et al. 1993: 17; 2005: 26). This synonymy was first given by Johnson (1919: 440).