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
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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
Polleniidae
The family
Polleniidae
was proposed by
Brauer & Bergenstamm (1889)
to include the genus
Pollenia
, until recently considered as belonging to
Calliphoridae
(e.g.
Rognes 1997
;
Kutty
et al
. 2010
).
Cerretti
et al
. (2019)
reinstated the family both on morphological and molecular basis. The family contains 152 species (
Evenhuis & Pape 2020
) distributed in Holarctic, Afrotropical and Australasian regions.
Rondani (1856
,
1862d
) described five Palaearctic species in his “
Stirps
Muscinae
”. Two of these are currently considered as valid, three as junior synonyms (
Rognes 1991
a
, Pape
et al
. 1995).
Schumann (1986)
incorrectly attributed one species to Rondani.
Rognes (1991a)
examined the type material in the MZUF and designated a
lectotype
for
Pollenia levis
Rondani, 1862
,
Pollenia paupera
Rondani, 1862
,
Pollenia pulvillata
Rondani, 1862
and
Pollenia ruficrura
Rondani, 1862
. Except for
Anthracomya geneji
Rondani, 1856
, which has presumably been lost, the type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is distributed among the MZUF (four), MSNC (one), MSNPV (one), MZLU (one), and
MNHN
(one).