Hydrotaea cyaneiventris, Macquart, 1851

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

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cyaneiventris Macquart, 1851 View in CoL , Hydrotoea

Hydrotoea cyaneiventris Macquart, 1851b: 236 ( 1851d: 263) View in CoL . Lectotype ♂, “ Chili. M. Gay. Muséum.” ( Chile), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There is 1 ♂ syntype under no. 1870 of the Macquart collection in MNHN. It has the accession no. 15.43 ( Chile, collector Gay), and has been labelled by Macquart “ Hydrotoea / cyaneiventris / ♂. Macq. n. sp”. It is in very poor condition. At one time, it must have become detached from its pin, and it has been gummed to a piece of card: it is dirty and with some mould ; most of the scutum has been destroyed and much of the left wing has also gone; the abdomen is very squashed and distorted; as it is mounted on its side it is difficult to see precisely which legs are missing, but apparently the left three legs are present and the right three are missing. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Hydrotoea cyaneiventris is indeed a species of Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , as is shown by the characteristic ♂ fore femoral ornamentation, and with its dark metallic colour and dark calypters it has apparently been correctly interpreted by subsequent authors (e.g., Malloch 1934: 301; Palka-Rocha & Carvalho 1994: 5-7, figs 1, 5, 9, 13, 18, 23). Séguy (1937: 304) redescribed the type, but synonymized it incorrectly with the European H. cyrtoneurina (Zetterstedt, 1845) .

References

MACQUART P. J. M. 1851 b. - Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4 e supplement publie dans les memoires de 1849 [concl.]. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts a Lille 1850: 134 - 294. [Published 5. iv. 1851: see Evenhuis 1997: 514. The contents are as follows: pages 134 - 282, text; pages 283 - 289, legends to plates; pages 290 - 294, index to genera and species of this part.]

MACQUART P. J. M. 1851 d. - Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4 e supplement publie dans les memoires de 1849. [concl.] N. E. Roret, Paris, 364 p. [Published 31. xii. 1851: see Evenhuis 1997: 514. This is a reprint of 1850 a and 1851 b, i. e. the two parts of the 4 th supplement combined into a single volume. The contents are as follows: pages 5 - 309, text; pages 311 - 323, legends to plates; pages 324 - 336, index to genera and species of the two parts of this supplement, i. e. the indices of 1850 a and 1851 b are combined into one; pages 337 - 364, index to genera and species described in the first two volumes of the series and in the four supplements, which is not in the original journal.]

MALLOCH J. R. 1934. - Muscidae, in Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile, vol. 7, part 2. British Museum (Natural History), London: 171 - 346.

SEGUY E. 1937. - Diptera fam. Muscidae, in WYTSMAN P. (ed.), Genera Insectorum 205. Desmet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles: 604 p.