Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani
Author
Sforzi, Alessandra
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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
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Heleomyzidae
Though the identity of this family, proposed by Westwood in 1840, is quite uncertain (
McAlpine 2007
) it contains, nonetheless, more than 750 species (
Evenhuis & Pape 2020
) predominantly from temperate northern regions but also some from the Neotropical and Australasian regions. In his “
Stirps Scatophaginae
”, rather than in the family
Heleomyzidae,
Rondani (1866d)
described nine Palaearctic nominal species. Two are currently considered as valid, six as junior synonyms and one as doubtful (
Gorodkov 1984b
,
Canzoneri
et al
. 1995
). In his paper on the Rondani types at MZUB,
Morge (1959b)
listed one unpublished name (
nomen nudum
) of Rondani.
Papp (1980)
designated a
lectotype
for
Helomyza tuberiperda
Rondani,
1866
in the MZUF. The type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is in the MZUF; additional
syntypes
of one species are in the MZLU.