Morellia (Parapyrellia) maculipennis Macquart 1846
Creators: name: Pamplona, Denise
name: Nihei, Silvio S.
name: Couri, Márcia S.
name: Pont, Adrian C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Morellia
Morellia maculipennis

description: 4. Morellia (P.) maculipennis (Macquart, 1846)
(Figs 182–189)
Pyrellia maculipennis Macquart, 1846a: 327; 1846b: 199. Type localities: COLOMBIA and BRAZIL. Lectotype ♀ (from Brazil), BMNH (des. Pont 2012: 72; seen).
Musca nitida Wiedemann, 1830: 410. Unavailable name; proposed in synonymy with Musca violacea Fabricius, 1805 (now in Calliphoridae). Locality: BRAZIL, Bahia. 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, NHMW (seen; Wiedemann’s 2 ♂♂ = Parapyrellia maculipennis (Macquart); his 1 ♀ = Morellia nigricosta).
Pyrellia maculipennata Macquart, 1851a: 225; 1851b: 252. Type locality: BRAZIL, Minas Gerais. Lectotype ♀, MNHN (des. Pont 2012: 72; seen).
Pyrellia specialis Walker, 1861: 313. Type locality: MEXICO. Holotype ♀, BMNH (seen).
Pyrellia centralis Loew, 1869: 37. Type locality: CUBA. Syntypes: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, MCZ (Pont & Werner 2006: 33; seen).
Musca violacea of authors, not Fabricius (1805: 288) [misidentifications]. This name is in any case a junior primary homonym of Musca violacea Scopoli, 1763. Holotype ♀, ZMUC (Michelsen 1979: 191), belongs to the Calliphoridae.
Redescription. Colour. Black, with blue reflections. Frontal vitta and fronto-orbital plate shining black on upper half; frontal vitta on lower half, face, parafacial and gena on inner portion brown with silver pruinosity; frontoorbital plate on lower half black with silver pruinosity; gena on outer portion shining brown; antenna brownishyellow with grey pruinosity, basal half of arista yellow; palpus yellow; mesonotum metallic black with a slight blue reflection and with one silver-dusted central vitta in front of the acrostichals, pleura partially grey pruinose; legs brown; haltere whitish, upper calypter yellowish, on outer half white and opaque, and lower calypter brownish; wing yellowish, with dark markings at humeral cross-vein, on subcostal apex (connected to a spot on r-m crossvein), on dm-cu cross-vein and R1. Abdomen without pruinosity.
Male. Body length: 6.0 mm; wing length: 5.0 mm.
Head. Eyes bare, separated at level of anterior ocellus by about 0.12–0.14 of head width; frons divergent towards lunule; ocellar triangle with a pair of setae and 3 setulae; 9–11 pairs of frontal setae; postpedicel 1.75–1.9 times the length of pedicel; pedicel with 2 setae and a few short setulae; arista plumose, with 14–16 cilia, bare apicad, and with some secondary plumes as far as level of 4th to 5th cilia; vibrissa shorter than arista; 1 supravibrissal seta, less than half the length of vibrissa, and a few setulae that extend to level of basal fourth of postpedicel; 4 subvibrissal setae followed by 11 genal setulae. Palpus expanded at apex.
Thorax. Acrostichals 0+1; dorsocentrals 1+2; intra-alars 0+1; presutural 1; prealar 1, strong, half as long as first supra-alar; supra-alars 2; postpronotals 3; notopleuron with 2 long, subequal setae and covered with groundsetulae; postalars 2; no intrapostalar; scutellum with 1 basal, 1 latero-discal and 1 apical pairs of setae, and lateroventrally with many setae, the basalmost ones downcurved; postalar wall bare; suprasquamal ridge with short pile; proepisternal depression bare; proepimeron with about 5 long setae; prosternum broad and bare, with short pile laterally; anepisternum with a posterior row of about 14 setae, without upcurved setae on upper-anterior corner, and covered with long setulae; katepisternals 1+2; anepimeron extensively setulose; katepimeron bare; anatergite bare; katatergite setulose. Legs: fore femur with a posterodorsal row of setae on basal two-thirds, a complete posteroventral row of setae or a posteroventral row of setae on apical two-thirds becoming shorter basad, and a dorsal row of setae; fore tibia with an anterodorsal row of short and weak setae, 1 dorsal and 1 anterodorsal preapical setae, 1 posteroventral and 1 ventral apical setae, and anterior surface with a ctenidium of golden setulae; fore tarsus with some long setae on basal segment; mid femur without a tubercle at apex, an anterodorsal row of setae on basal two-thirds, and 4 ventral setae on basal half; mid tibia with an anterodorsal comb-like ctenidium of very short spinose setulae on basal half and fine setae on apical half, 4 strong posterior setae on basal two-thirds, an anterior row of very short setae, and 1 dorsal, 1 posterior, 2 ventral and 1 posteroventral apical setae; hind femur with an anteroventral row of setae, 3 strongest at apex, an anterodorsal row of setae, a group of posterior setulae at base, and few posteroventral setulae on apical half, longer on apical fourth; hind tibia with 4 long and subequal anteroventral setae on apical half, a row of very short and strong dorsal setulae, a posterodorsal row of setae on apical third with shorter setae towards the apex, 1 dorsal and 1 anterodorsal preapical setae, 1 posteroventral apical seta, and a posterior brush-like ctenidium; hind tarsus with strong setae ventrally. Wing (Fig. 182) with a uniform covering of microtrichia except for a small area near cup cross-vein; dm-cu almost straight; stem-vein bare before, and with 3–4 short setulae after, humeral cross-vein on dorsal surface, and ventrally with about 1–2 short setulae before humeral cross-vein and bare after it; R2+3 bare on dorsal and ventral surfaces; R4+5 setulose from base to beyond r-m on dorsal and ventral surfaces; 1–3 strong setae on basicosta.
Abdomen. With a lateral tuft of setulae on syntergite 1+2, tergites 3–4 with normal setulae; sternite 1 setulose; posterior margin of sternite 5 concave and bare, with postero-lateral edge angled (Fig. 183).
Terminalia. Ventral surface of cercal plate concave and with spines; surstylus with many setae (Figs 184–186); aedeagal apodeme short; aedeagus bare; gonopod with 2 long and strong setae on basal third and 1 small setula on apical third; paramere with some setae apically (Fig. 187).
Female. Body length: 6.0 mm; wing length: 6.0 mm.
Similar to male, differing as follows: upper half of fronto-orbital plate shining black, frons and fronto-orbital plate light-brown on lower half; eyes separated at level of anterior ocellus by about 0.39 of head width; frontoorbital plate with 6 proclinate and 1 reclinate setulae; mid femur with only 5 anterodorsal to posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with only very short and strong anterodorsal setulae; hind tibia without posterodorsal short setae running to apex.
Ovipositor. Tergite 6 shaped as 2 golf-club-like rods; tergite 7 as 2 rods, posteriorly with 2 plates with many small spines; tergite 8 as 2 rods, posteriorly with 2 narrow plates with many small spines; sternite 7 as 1 very small plate, posteriorly with 3 plates with spines; sternite 8 as 2 narrow plates with spines; enlarged spicules on intersegmental membrane between segments 7 and 8; epiproct with 7 small setae; hypoproct with long setae; cercus cylindrical and long (Figs 188–189).
Material examined. MEXICO: no further data, holotype ♀ of Pyrellia specialis Walker (BMNH); CUBA: no further data, Gundlach, 1 Ƌ and 1 ♀ syntypes of Pyrellia centralis Loew (MCZ); BRAZIL: no further data, lectotype ♀ of Pyrellia maculipennis Macquart (BMNH); Minas Gerais, Claussen, lectotype ♀ of Pyrellia maculipennata Macquart (MHNP); Amazonas, road Manaus–Boa Vista, km 53, vi.1972, O. Roppa, 1 Ƌ (MNRJ); Mato Grosso, Sinop, x.1975 and iii.1976, Alvarenga & Roppa, 1 Ƌ and 1 ♀ (MNRJ); São Paulo, Campinas, 2.viii.1978, A.X. Linhares, 1 ♀ (MNRJ); Bahia, 2 ƋƋ, as “ Musca nitida Wiedemann ” (NHMW).
Distribution. NEOTROPICAL: widespread; Central America, islands of the Caribbean, and South America south to Paraguay.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-110 in Zootaxa 4163 (1) on pages 98-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4163.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/259278