Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani
Author
Sforzi, Alessandra
0000-0001-6974-7741
alessandra.sforzi@libero.it
Author
Sommaggio, Daniele
0000-0001-6974-7741
alessandra.sforzi@libero.it
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-06-17
4989
1
1
438
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
1175-5326
4980621
89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5
Diopsis latimana
Rondani, 1875
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 444.
TYPE LOCALITY: “
Insula Bonae Fortunae
(
Borneo
)
,
Provincia
Sarawak
[
Bona
Fortuna Island,
Sarawak
Province, Borneo]” (
Rondani 1875c: 421
).
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♀
,
lectotype
(
MSNG
):
Sarawak
/ Typus /
latimana
Rond.
/
Diopsis latimana
n° 41.
PARALECTOTYPES
NOT EXAMINED:
2 ♀♀
(one missing left fore-leg) (
MZUF
: Box 72): [no identification
number
] / Borneo,
Sarawak
, 1865–66, Coll. G.
Doria
.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of
Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni
(
Wiedemann, 1830
) (
Steyskal 1977c: 32
)
; junior synonym of
Teleopsis dalmanni
(
Wiedemann, 1830
)
,
new combination
.
REMARKS:
Rondani (1875c: 444)
described
Diopsis latimana
,
without specifying either the
number
or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being
three specimens
in the type series found in this study, from material collected by G.
Doria
and O. Beccari.
Guiglia (1957: 194)
reported a “
holotype
” in the MSNG without knowing of
two males
in the MZUF, which brings the original
syntype
series to
three specimens
. In his original description Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single specimen therefore Guiglia’s “
holotype
” specimen must be considered as the
lectotype
(I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). The additional
two females
in the MZUF not examined by Guiglia are
paralectotypes
.
Meier & Baker (2002: 333)
synonymized
Cyrtodiopsis
with
Teleopsis
but did not transfer
Diopsis latimana
, which
Steyskal (1977c: 32)
had treated as a junior synonym of
Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni
(
Wiedemann, 1830
)
; we transfer it here to
Teleopsis
and keep the synonymy,
new combination
.