Maculia Robineau-Desvoidy , 1863b : 279

302. Maculia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863b: 279 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Maculia punctata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 .

TYPE SPECIES: Maculia punctata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 [= probably Amobia sp. ], by monotypy.

CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [ teste Herting (1974: 37) and this work].

FAMILY: SARCOPHAGIDAE .

REMARKS: The genus was not treated in either the Palaearctic Tachinidae catalog (Herting & Dely- Draskovits, 1993) or the world Sarcophagidae catalog ( Pape, 1996). However, Herting (1974: 37) stated: “ Maculia R.D. 1863 (II), p. 279, nur + punctata R.D. Von BEZZI (1907, p. 569) fälschlich in die Gattung Tamiclea gestellt. Der vorhandene Typus ist gar keine Tachine, sondern eine Sarcophagide ( Pachyophthalmus oder ähnliche Art) ”. We are here relying on Herting’s tentative identification and Robineau-Desvoidy’s mention of a row of hair-like proclinate orbital bristles (autapomorphic for the genus Amobia ; see Pape 1996), a large lower calypter and abdominal spots. Robineau-Desvoidy (1863b: 279) described both the male and the female sex in the generic description, but for the single included species he claimed to have seen only a single male: “ Nous ne possédons qu’un Mâle de cette rare espèce ”.