Pyrellia flavicalyptrata, Macquart, 1848

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 61

flavicalyptrata Macquart, 1848 , Lucilia

Lucilia flavicalyptrata Macquart, 1848a: 215 ( 1848b: 55) , pl. 6, figs 9, 9a, 9b. Lectotype ♂, “de Java. Collection de M. Payen.” (Java), by present designation, in MHNT.

MATERIAL. — Described from the collection of M. Payen, curator of the then municipal museum of Tournai, and the ♂ syntype was located in MHNT by the late Dr J. Verbeke of IRSNB who sent it to me for study. It is damp but is otherwise well preserved, and fits Macquart’s description very well. It is now located in the IRSNB collections. There is a ♂ under this name in the Macquart collection in MNHN, under no. 695. It is labelled by Macquart “ Lucilia / flavicalyptrata / ♂. Macq. 3 m. supp.”, and has the accession no. 2108.41, a collection made in Bombay by Rousseau. This is clearly a later specimen identified by Macquart and not a syntype. It is apparently the specimen studied by Aubertin (1932: 144; 1933: 428), who mistakenly considered it to be the type.

There are also 4 specimens in that part of the Bigot collection now in the BMNH, labelled by Macquart “ Lucilia / flavicalyptrata / ♂. Macq. 3 e. Supp.”, and these too are later specimens and not syntypes. They were studied by Brauer (1899: 525).

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The lectotype is a specimen of the common Oriental Neomyia lauta (Wiedemann, 1830) ( Emden 1965: 129, as Orthellia ) and this synonymy was established by Pont (1977b: 465). The MNHN ♂ is Neomyia coeruleifrons (Macquart, 1851) . The 3 ♂♂ in BMNH are Neomyia lauta whilst the ♀ is probably Neomyia timorensis (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) .