Musca Borealis

[1] It was originally called Apes (plural of Apis, Latin for bee) by Petrus Plancius when he created it in 1612.

At magnitude 3.63, it is a blue-white main sequence star of spectral type B8V around 166 light-years distant.

[3] 39 Arietis (Lilii Borea) is an orange giant star of magnitude 4.51 and spectral type K1.5III that is around 171 light-years distant.

The renaming by Bartsch may have been intended to avoid confusion with another constellation, created by Plancius in 1598, that was called Apis by Bayer in 1603.

[5] In 1679 Augustin Royer used these stars for his constellation Lilium (the Lily, representing the fleur-de-lis and in honour of his patron, King Louis XIV).

Constellation Musca in Johannes Hevelius' atlas (1690). In this atlas, constellations are shown as they would appear on a globe, i.e. back to front by comparison with their appearance in the sky.
In Urania's Mirror (1825).