The Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) described by Paul Stein (1852-1921)

Abstract

An overview is given of the species‐group names in the families Fanniidae and Muscidae described by Paul Stein (1852–1921) together with their type specimens. Stein described 57 new species in the Fanniidae and 783 species in the Muscidae together with 5 replacement names, to which are added 6 unavailable species names (nomina nuda) in Fanniidae and 26 in Muscidae. A brief account of his life and career and of the various collections that he studied is given, followed by an alphabetical list of the species‐group names within the Fanniidae and Muscidae. The type specimens (holotypes and syntypes) that have been located in museums and institutes throughout Europe and the United States are enumerated. The bibliography includes all the papers published by Stein on these families. The account concludes with three appendices: a systematic list of the species, a list of the species by zoogeographic region, and a list of the localities mentioned in Stein's papers. Four lectotypes are designated (Homalomyia carbonella Stein, 1895; Homalomyia lineata Stein, 1895; Fannia nigra Stein, 1920; Mydaea pallidicornis Stein in Becker, 1910), and two replacement names for junior homonyms are given (Neodexiopsis simplicissima nom. nov. for Coenosia simplex Stein, 1920, and Helina steini nom. nov. for Aricia punctata Stein, 1898, both from the Nearctic Region). (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

About wrongly assigned Afrotropical Dichaetomyia specimens resembling Dichaetomyia ovata (Stein) (Diptera: Muscidae), with descriptions of four new species

“…Thus, a key feature for distinguishing the two taxa had lost importance with Emden 's definition, and a reliable assignment of specimens to one of the two taxa was no longer possible. Since one of the two female syntypes of D. ovata (PONT & WERNER 2006) and all five female types of D. rutila in the Budapest Museum were destroyed by fire in 1956 (PONT 2013), a detailed comparison of the two species was no longer possible. In addition, Stein 's descriptions of the two species did not provide sufficient evidence that they are different taxa, and neither Curran nor Emden indicated in the supplementary characterizations of D. ovata and D. rutila that these were based on investigations of the type material.…”

Lispe (Diptera, Muscidae) of Africa

“…The identification seemed correct in 2014, but presently we know that the yellow-legged form of L. scalaris is rather common in S Africa. Syntypes of L. flavipes were destroyed in 1956 in Budapest (Pont 2013). I checked Stein's (1913) Paratypes 6♂, 7♀: the same data as the holotype.…”

Type material of Phaonia (Diptera: Muscidae) in the Zoological Institute RAS, St.-Petersburg, Russia

“…Loew, 1873: 48 (Aricia) Stein, 1907: 321 (Aricia) REMARKS. According to Pont [2013]: holotype #, seen by Hennig [1963: 864] but not now in ZIN and not seen by A. Zinovjev. Pont, 1981: 427 (Phaonia) Other type material.…”