Subspecies
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No subspecies are recognized.
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Synonyms
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Musca nigricans Linnaeus, 1746 (unavailable, later made available by De Villers)
Tipula fuscata Fabricius, 1775 (p. 755)
Rhagio fuscatus (Fabricius, 1775)
Musca fuscata (Fabricius, 1775)
Sciara fuscata (Fabricius, 1775)
Rhyphus fuscatus (Fabricius, 1775)
Anisopus fuscatus (Fabricius, 1775)
Phryne fuscata (Fabricius, 1775)
Sylvicola fuscata (Fabricius, 1775)
Sylvicola fuscatus (Fabricius, 1775)
Type locality: "Habitat in Suecia" (= Sweden).
Musca nigricans De Villers, 1789 (p. 509) (see note)
Rhyphus nigricans (De Villers, 1789)
Anisopus fuscus Meigen, 1804 (p. 103)
Phryne fusca (Meigen, 1804)
Sylvicola fuscus (Meigen, 1804)
Sylvicola subfuscatus Krivosheina & Menzel, 1998 (p. 206)
Phryne punctata auct. nec Fabricius, 1787 (misidentification)
Note: The binomen Musca nigricans is often attributed to Linnaeus
(1761). However, in this work the "name" occurs in the appendix
("seposita") of animals that Linnaeus was not sure about, because he had
only seen them once or heard about them by others. This portion of his
book is non-binominal and thus the name "Musca nigricans" is not a
binomen, but just means "a blackish fly". The binomen in the
nomenclatural sense was then published by De Villers (1789).
Despite its apparently female ending -a, Sylvicola is a masculine noun
(from latin: silvicola or sylvicola (masculine): "someone who lives in
the forest"). The correct form of the species epithet is therefore
fuscatus, not fuscata.
The taxonomy of this species is rather confused: The name has long been
applied to the species that is widespread in Europe. However,
Krivosheina and Menzel (1998) in their revision of the genus have
applied the name to a species that occurs mainly in Asia and have
described the European species as a new species Sylvicola subfuscatus.
Michelsen (1999) corrected this mistake: the original identity of the
nominal Tipula fuscata is indeed the European form and thus Sylvicola
subfuscatus is a junior synonym. The Asian species that has been called
Sylvicola fuscatus by Krivisheina and Menzel (1998) has been described
by Michelsen (1999) as a new species, Sylvicola fuscatoides.
Latin diagnosis of Tipula fuscata: "T[ipula] thorace lineato, abdomine
fusco, alis macula marginali nigra: puncto cinereo. Musca fuscata
nigricans, alis antice albo nigroque variis." (the latter sentence being
a reference to Linnaeus´ "Musca nigricans" in Fauna Svevica).
Lectotype of Tipula fuscata selected by Michelsen (1999) and deposited
with the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen.
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Biology
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Specimen photographed in Frankfurt am Main (Hessen) on October 12, 2014.
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