Posted by John Carr on 13-07-2019 18:09
#14
Zeegers wrote:
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L. anthracinum IS mentioned as valid species in Herting’s catalogue, and a key is given by Tschorsnig & Herting, of which a (free) translation can be found at Chris Rapers website.
Theo
In his revision of American
Leucostoma Reinhard (1956) recognized a holarctic species
L. aterrimum with elongated female abdomen. North Americans continue to use this name. As far as can be determined from literature, this is the same species that Tschorsnig and Herting call
L. anthracinum. Somebody is using the wrong name, but we can't figure out who without a visit to Paris to examine the type of
Musca aterrima.
Possibly everybody is using the wrong name, if Old and New World species are different and
aterrima is a senior synonym of
anthracinum.
Too many flies, not enough taxonomists.