Argentine Philornis Meinert species (Diptera: Muscidae) with synonymic notes Author Couri, Márcia S. Author Antoniazzi, Leandro R. Author Beldomenico, Pablo Author Quiroga, Martin text Zootaxa 2009 2261 52 62 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.190768 77b7cc97-1e75-4dd1-b0ba-3d26e853674d 1175-5326 190768 Philornis pici ( Macquart, 1854 ) Aricia pici Macquart, 1854 : 659 . Syntypes male lost (formerly in MNHN or MHNL). Type locality: Dominican Republic , “St-Domingue. As stated in “Historical data, the records of this species from Argentina are based on speculation ( Bezzi 1922 ) or on doubtful identifications ( Shannon & Del Ponte 1926 ; Nores 1995 ). Garcia’s (1952) description of P . pici , based on five males, four from Tucumán and one from Santa Fe (all lost), is sufficiently vague that it cannot be accepted as a reliable record of P . pici from Argentina , and hence the species is doubtfully recorded from Argentina . None of the specimens examined in the present study correspond to P . pici . The following diagnosis, based on Macquart’s (1854) original description and on Aldrich (1923) , could help a further identification: length of male 12mm ; male eyes contiguous; antenna and palpus yellow; scutum bluish-brown with greyish pollinosity and with four brown vittae; legs yellow; wing clear, abdomen bluishbrown with tergite 1+2 and basal half of tergite 3 yellow. Puparium light brown; with large stigmatal plates, spiracles in a deep concavity, smooth inside; spiracular slits very sinuous (Figure 5 of Aldrich 1923 ). Macquart (1854: 659) described a cocoon “fait de gros filaments blancs et poreux and gave an illustration of the adult male (Pl. 20. No II).