Morellia, Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Pamplona, Denise, Nihei, Silvio S., Couri, Márcia S. & Pont, Adrian C., 2016, Taxonomy of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae): revision of the subgenera Morellia s. str. and Parapyrellia Townsend, Zootaxa 4163 (1), pp. 1-110 : 12

Genus MORELLIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

MORELLIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 405 . Type species: Morellia agilis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Musca hortorum Fallén, 1817 ], by designation of Townsend (1916: 8).

CAMILLA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 641 . [Junior homonym of Camilla Haliday, 1836 : Diptera .] Type species: Morellia aenescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , by designation of Coquillett (1910: 517).

CYRTONEUROPSIS Townsend, 1931a: 68 . [Junior homonym of Cyrtoneuropsis Malloch, 1925 : Diptera , Muscidae .] Type species: Curtonevra cyanea Macquart, 1843 , by original designation [misidentification; = Pyrellia violacea Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830] (see Pont et al. 2005: 65).

CYACYRTONEURA Townsend, 1931b: 479 . Type species: Cyacyrtoneura cyanea Townsend, 1931b [= Pyrellia violacea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ], by monotypy (see Pont et al. 2005: 65).

CHAETOPYRELLIA Townsend, 1932: 106. Type species: Pyrellia ochrifacies Rondani, 1850 [= Pyrellia violacea Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830], by original designation.

NEOPYRELLIA Enderlein, 1935: 236 . Type species: Pyrellia violacea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , by original designation.

NUMORELLIA Fan, 2008: 742 (Chinese, in key), 1045 (English, in key), and 994 [as a subgenus of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ]. Type species: Cyrtoneura nilotica Loew, 1856 , by original designation.

Diagnosis (modified from Pamplona [1986b, 1986c] and Nihei & Carvalho [2009]). Colour metallic bluish-black to violaceous; wing with or without maculae. Male holoptic; antero-internal ommatidia enlarged. Female with proclinate fronto-orbital setae present or not; interfrontal seta absent. Eye bare or with very few cilia; palpus a little spatulate apically; arista plumose on basal two-thirds or three-quarters and bare apically. Acrostichals 0+1; dorsocentrals 0+2, 0+3 or 1+2; intra-alars 1+1 or 1+2; supra-alars 0+3 or 1+3; intrapostalar seta present or absent; katepisternals 1+2; prosternum setulose or bare; anepimeron setulose; meron bare; metepimeron setulose above hind coxa. Wing with Rs node setulose dorsally and ventrally; R4+5 usually setulose dorsally (bare in Xenomorellia ); M strongly curved forward apically; subcostal sclerite bare (setulose ventrally in Xenomorellia ). Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly (extending under base of scutellum) (in Morellia s. s. and Parapyrellia ) or glossiform (in Trichomorellia and Xenomorellia ). Calcar varying, absent, weak or strong. Sternite 1 setulose; ovipositor long with tergites very thin and possessing strong spines.