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
Truquia insularis
Rondani, 1863
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 72 (key), 73 (description).
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
In Graecia Insulari
[on
Greek Islands
]”
.
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♀
,
syntype
(
MZUN
:
Box Bombilidei B
03, 02):
Truquia insularis
Rnd, Arcip.
greci [=
Greek
archipelago] /
M. Zool.
N° 11099
.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as
Amictus insularis
(
Zaitzev 1989: 75
,
Contini
et al.
1995: 7
,
Evenhuis & Greathead 1999: 230
,
2015: 241
).
REMARKS:
Rondani (1863: 73)
described
Truquia insularis
,
without specifying either the
number
or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from E. Truqui.
Costa
(1866: 38)
listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “860”.
Evenhuis & Greathead (1999: 230)
could not locate types. We found
one syntype
in this study.