Subspecies
No subspecies
are recognized.
Original
description
Original spelling:
Rhagio punctatus
Fabricius IC (1787). Mantissa Insectorum.
Tomus II, Christian Gottlieb Proft,
Kopenhagen.
Latin diagnosis: "R[hagio] nigricans, thorace
cinereo: lineis duabus nigris, alis hyalinis:
maculis marginalibus nigris." "Paruus. Caput
nigrum antennis filiformibus. Thorax cinereus
lineis duabus dorsalibus abbreuiatis nigris.
Abdomen planum, nigrum abdominis segmentis
margine parum pallidis. Alae hyalinae margine
crassiori in medio maculis aliquot nigris.
Pedes nigri femoribus testaceis."
Locus typicus: "Habitat in Kiliae" (Kiel,
Germany). Of the type specimen only the left
wing remains (Michelsen (1999)). This wing has
been selected as the lectotype by Michelsen
(1999) and deposited with the Zoological
Museum of the University of Copenhagen.
Synonyms
Rhagio
punctatus Fabricius, 1787 (p. 333)
Sciara punctata
(Fabricius, 1787)
Sciara
punctatus (Fabricius, 1787)
Rhyphus
punctatus (Fabricius, 1787)
Phryne punctata
(Fabricius, 1787)
Sylvicola
punctata (Fabricius, 1787)
Sylvicola
punctatus (Fabricius, 1787)
Musca bilineata
Gmelin, 1790 (p. 2866) (unnecessary new name)
Rhyphus
bilineatus (Gmelin, 1790)
Phryne
bilineata (Gmelin, 1790)
Sylvicola bilineatus (Gmelin, 1790)
Ryphus marginatus
Say, 1823 (p. 24) (lapsus in genus name)
Rhyphus
marginatus (Say, 1823)
Phryne marginata
(Say, 1823)
Rhyphus minor
Zetterstedt, 1855 (p. 4832)
Phryne minor
(Zetterstedt, 1855)
Sylvicola minor (Zetterstedt, 1855)
Anisopus
nebulosus Meigen, 1804 (p. 103) (partim!)
Phryne nebulosa
(Meigen, 1804) (partim)
Sylvicola
nebulosa (Meigen, 1804) (partim)
Sylvicola
nebulosus (Meigen, 1804) (partim)
Rhyphus
nebulosus (Meigen, 1804) (partim)
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 punctatus, not punctata.
Ryphus marginatus has been described from
Pennsylvania (USA), but does not differ
significantly from Sylvicola punctatus; the
characters given by Say (1823) that
distinguish between these two taxa fall within
the intraspecific variation of the present
species. The same goes for Rhyphus minor
described by Zetterstedt (1855) from Sweden.
Note: Gmelin had a habit of renaming
previously described species without giving a
reason for doing so. Musca bilineata is a new
name that he gave to Fabricius´ Rhagio
punctatus. Thus it is a junior synonym of it,
and it is also a multiple junior homonym of
other "Musca bilineata" described before.
Identification
Distribution
Biology
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