Lispe desjardinsii, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 59

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scientific name	Lispe desjardinsii
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Treatment

desjardinsii Macquart, 1843 , Pyrellia

Pyrellia desjardinsii Macquart, 1843: 149 ( 1844: 306) View in CoL , pl. 20, figs 4, 4a. Syntypes ♂ and ♀, “de l’île de France. M. Desjardins. Muséum.” ( Mauritius), not in MNHN or MHNL, and presumed destroyed.

MATERIAL. — Described from both sexes from material in MNHN. Under no. 981 of the Macquart collection in MNHN there is a label for this species but no specimens or even pin-holes, and the syntypes are therefore presumed to have been destroyed. In box G.21 of the Macquart collection in MHNL, there is a label reading “ P. desjardinsii . Port Natal.” but no specimen. However, this specimen could not have been a syntype because of its South African origin.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Pyrellia desjardinsii has been listed as an unrecognized species of Neomyia Walker, 1859 ( Pont 1980: 728, as Orthellia ). Only two species of Neomyia are known from Mauritius: N. viridifrons Macquart, 1843 ( boersiana Bigot, 1877 ) and N. albigena Stein, 1913 , both of which are widespread on mainland Africa and also on Madagascar. Macquart’s description is insufficiently detailed to be able to make a positive identification of his species, but to maintain nomenclatural stability, I propose to treat Pyrellia desjardinsii as a junior synonym of Neomyia viridifrons Macquart, 1843 (n. syn.). See also the discussion below under Lucilia viridifrons Macquart, 1843 .

References

MACQUART P. J. M. 1843. - Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme - 3 e partie. N. E. Roret, Paris, 304 p. [This is a preprint of the journal version of 1844. Evenhuis (1997: 513) dates this work from the earliest review, of February 1844. However, it does not follow from this date that the work was published in 1844, and there is no evidence to suggest that the printed date of 1843 is incorrect. In fact, for a review to appear in print in February 1844, it seems most likely that the work was indeed published in 1843.]

MACQUART P. J. M. 1844. - Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. [Tome deuxieme - 3 e partie.] Memoires de la Societe des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts a Lille 1842: 160 - 460. [Published 5. viii. 1844: see Evenhuis 1997: 513.]

PONT A. C. 1980. - Family Muscidae, in CROSSKEY R. W. (ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: 721 - 761.