Curtonevra curvipes, Macquart, 1834

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 56-57

curvipes Macquart, 1834 , Curtonevra

Curtonevra curvipes Macquart, 1834a: 12 ( 1834b: 148) . Lectotype ♂, “environs de Lille” ( France, Lille area), by present designation, in MHNL (also described as a new species in Macquart 1835: 276, “du nord de la France ”).

MATERIAL. — Described from both sexes. There is 1 ♂ in box G.22 of the Macquart collection in MHNL, over the label “ M. curvipes , n. / L.” (“L.” is probably Lille). It is rather dirty and has some mould, and the right hind leg is missing. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

A 2nd ♂ syntype was found, among the miscellaneous Macquart material in MNHN. It is labelled by Macquart “274.” and “curvipes.”. It is much damaged by beetle attack. I have labelled it as paralectotype.

Brauer & Bergenstamm (1891: 426) reported on a “type” in NMW, but it seems highly unlikely that their specimen could have been a syntype and their use of the term “type” should be interpreted as “a typical specimen”.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — The lectotype and paralectotype are conspecific with Morellia aenescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , as stated by Bezzi & Stein (1907: 600), Hennig (1964a: 966) and Pont (1986b: 94).