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 Cerocatus tarsalis Rondani, 1848 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 99. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil ]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63 ); Belem (Pará), Brazil ( Papavero (1973: 343) . TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀ , syntype (missing wings and mid-legs, antennae broken) ( MZUN : Box Asilidei A 05, 04): Cerocatus tarsalis Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11518 . CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Hardy 1966b: 1 , Kelsey 1969: 1 , Webb et al . 2013: 33 ). REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 99) described Cerocatus tarsalis , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 38) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “866”. We also found one syntype in this study. This nominal species was thought to belong to the family Scenopinidae ( Hardy, 1966b ) ; Kelsey (1969:1) placed Cerocatus tarsalis in Therevidae . Although Rondani (1848b: 99) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil .