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 Tabanus punctum Rondani, 1848 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 105. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil ]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63 ); [Belem (Pará), Brazil ] ( Papavero 1973: 343 ). See Remarks. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂ , syntype ( MZUN : Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Tabanidei—Gen. Tabanus ): Tabanus punctum Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 10919 / probable type of T. punctum Rond., G.B. Fairchild 1964 ; 1 ♀ , syntype ( MZUN : Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Tabanidei—Gen. Tabanus ): no label. CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Tabanus olivaceiventris Macquart, 1847 ( Fairchild 1971: 98 , Coscarón & Papavero 2009: 138 ). REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 105) described both sexes of Tabanus punctum without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 38) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “890”. Philip (1965a: 121) and Fairchild (1971: 98) reported the “ syntypes ♂ ♀ ” in the MZUN. We also found two syntypes in this study. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) 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 .