Mycetobia fulva, Philippi, 1865, 1838

Elgueta, Mario & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2019, A catalog of Anisopodidae (Diptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 4629 (2), pp. 247-254 : 251

fulva Philippi, 1865. Nomen dubium

Holotype: no type specimens deposited in MNNC, presumably lost. Distr.: Región de Los Ríos: Valdivia Province (Corral) (see Philippi, 1865: 626).

Refs.: Reed, 1888: 281 (cat., as Mycetophilidae ); Hunter, 1900: 274 (cat., in Mycetophilidae ); Edwards, 1928: 25 (list, in Anisopodidae ); Stuardo, 1946: 40 (cat.); Papavero, 1967: 5 (cat.); González & Coscarón, 2005: 363 (list).

Comments. In the original description of this species, Philippi (1865) referred to it as “ Mycetobia ? fulva ”. There are no illustrations of the species and no other single specimen of the genus Mycetobia has been found so far in Chile. Edwards (1928) and Freeman (1951) mentions that it could be a species of Nevijuncta Marshall in the Ditomyiidae . Baylac & Matile (1988: 86) state that this species is not a Mycetobia species: the wing venation is “similar to that of Platyura ” Meigen, and Evenhuis (2006: 127) refers to this species as a questionable taxon within Keroplatidae . This is most certainly not even an anisopodid but it exact taxonomic position only can be determinate by a subsequent study.