Musca canicularis Linnaeus 1761
Creators: name: De Carvalho, C. J. B.
name: Pont, A. C.
name: Couri, M. S.
name: Pamplona, D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Anthomyiidae
Musca
Musca canicularis

description: canicularis Linnaeus, 1761:454 (Musca).
New name for lateralis Linnaeus, 1758.
Distr.­ Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is., Juan Fernández Is., Galápagos Is., Inaccessible Island; cosmopolitan. Ref. Hennig 1955a:32, figs 3, 4, 8, 15, pl. 1, fig. 7; Hennig 1955c:pl. 4, fig. 66. Myantha canicularis; Rondani 1863:34; 1864:34 (Chile).
Homalomyia canicularis; Rondani 1866:132 (Chile); Rondani 1877:48 (Chile); Wulp 1883:47 (Argentina); Bigot 1885:284 (Argentina); Wulp 1896:331 (Costa Rica); Coquillett 1901:375 (Galápagos Is.); Stein 1901:199; Stein 1904:458 (Colombia, Chile); Stein 1907a:216.
Fannia canicularis; Stein 1911:108 (Chile); Stein 1919:131, 132 (cat.); Shannon and Del Ponte 1926:566, 571 (Argentina); Gaminara 1930:1253 (Uruguay), fig. 6; Gaminara 1931:1253 (Uruguay), fig. 6; Curran 1932:359 (Galápagos Is.); Séguy 1932:22 (Argentina, parasite of Schistocerca paranensis); Roberts 1934:253 (Mexico); Malloch 1934:203 (Argentina, Chile); Séguy 1937:165 (cat.); Ortiz 1946:157 (cat.); James 1947:130 (Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Galápagos Is., Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.); Ruffinelli and Carbonell 1954:66 (Uruguay); Hennig 1955b:26 (Juan Fernández Is.); Chillcott 1961:188 (Mexico and N. America), figs 129, 129A–D (male genitalia), 203 (female ovipositor), 261 (wing), 271–272 (egg), 283 (larva); Hennig 1965:fig. 6 (epandrium); Pont 1972:3 (cat.); Huckett 1972:82 (syntype of mexicana seen); Linhares 1981:232 (Brazil, synanthropy), 235 (synanthropic index), 239 (distribution, habits); Albuquerque et al. 1981:10 (canicularis ­group), 22 (key); Holloway 1985:250, figs 22, 31, 40, 49, 58 (larva); Ribeiro et al. 1985:507–509 (Brazil); Almeida et al. 1985:279–284 (Brazil, synanthropy); Queiroz and Carvalho 1987:276 (Brazil, description larva III, in open dumps and domestic garbage compost), figs 47–48 (larva); Bruno et al. 1992:55–59 (Brazil); Carvalho et al. 1993:8 (cat.); Perotti and Brasesco 1996:3–8 (Argentina, poultry manure); Perotti 1998:145–154 (Argentina, synanthropic flies); Carvalho and Couri 1999:211 (South Atlantic, Inaccessible Island); Carvalho et al. 2002:108 (key), 112 (Brazil, human habits).
00 lateralis Linnaeus, 1758:597 (Musca). Lectotype male, LSUK [des. Pont 1981:170]. Type­locality: “Europe”. Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. 1969, Opinion 884.
00 chilensis Macquart, 1843a:328, pl. 23, fig. 4; 1843b:171, pl. 23, fig. 4 (Anthomyia). Syntypes male, MNHN. Type­locality: " Chili ".
Anthomyia chilensis; Gay 1852:442 (Chile); Reed 1888:33 (Chile).
00 introducta Walker, 1853:362 (Anthomyia). Holotype female, BMNH. Type­locality: "South America ". Synonymy by Stein 1901:199.
00 mexicana Bigot, 1885:284 (Homalomyia). Lectotype male, UMO [des. Pont in Carvalho et al. 1993:9; see also Pont 2000a:104, 2000b:18 (both: notes on types)]; paralectotypes male, UMO. Type­locality: " Mexique ". Synonymy by Stein 1907b:279. Homalomyia mexicana; Giglio­Tos 1896:27 (Mexico); Wulp 1896:332 (Mexico, Costa Rica).
description: Published as part of De Carvalho, C. J. B., Pont, A. C., Couri, M. S. & Pamplona, D., 2003, A catalogue of the Fanniidae (Diptera) of the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 219 on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156183