Musca scapularis Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 152

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scientific name	Musca scapularis Rondani, 1875
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 428.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo) , Provincia Sarawak [ Bona Fortuna Island , Sarawak Province, Borneo]” ( Rondani 1875c: 421) .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype ( MSNG): Sarawak / Typus / scapularis Rond. / Musca scapularis n° 18.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Musca conducens Walker, 1859 ( Pont 1977: 456, Thompson & Pont 1994: 118).

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 428) described Musca scapularis from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 195) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 43) reported the holotype (♂) in the MSNG.