Maculia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863b: 279

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302. Maculia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863b: 279 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Maculia punctata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 .

TYPE SPECIES: Maculia punctata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 [= probably Amobia sp. ], by monotypy.

CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [teste Herting (1974: 37) and this work].

FAMILY: SARCOPHAGIDAE .

REMARKS: The genus was not treated in either the Palaearctic Tachinidae catalog (Herting & Dely- Draskovits, 1993) or the world Sarcophagidae catalog ( Pape, 1996). However, Herting (1974: 37) stated: “ Maculia R.D. 1863 (II), p. 279, nur + punctata R.D. Von BEZZI (1907, p. 569) fälschlich in die Gattung Tamiclea gestellt. Der vorhandene Typus ist gar keine Tachine, sondern eine Sarcophagide (Pachyophthalmus oder ähnliche Art) ”. We are here relying on Herting’s tentative identification and Robineau-Desvoidy’s mention of a row of hair-like proclinate orbital bristles (autapomorphic for the genus Amobia ; see Pape 1996), a large lower calypter and abdominal spots. Robineau-Desvoidy (1863b: 279) described both the male and the female sex in the generic description, but for the single included species he claimed to have seen only a single male: “ Nous ne possédons qu’un Mâle de cette rare espèce ”.