Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani
Author
Sforzi, Alessandra
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Author
Sommaggio, Daniele
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-06-17
4989
1
1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
1175-5326
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Mallophora tisiphones
Rondani, 1848
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 94.
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
Brasile
[
Brazil
]” (
Rondani 1848b: 63
); [Belem (Pará),
Brazil
] (
Papavero 1973: 343
). See Remarks.
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♂
,
syntype
(
MZUN
:
Box Asilidei A
05, 03):
Mallophora tisiphones
Rnd.
,
Brasile
/
M. Zool.
N° 11048
.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species (
Martin & Papavero 1970: 76
); junior synonym of
Mallophora robusta
(
Wiedemann, 1828
)
(
Artigas & Angulo 1980: 97
,
Papavero 2009: 41
).
REMARKS:
Rondani (1848b: 94)
described
Mallophora tisiphones
from just the male sex, without specifying the exact
number
of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani and received from G. Mussino.
Costa (1866: 36)
listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “805”.
Artigas & Angulo (1980: 98)
incorrectly reported the type of this nominal species as lost. We found
one syntype
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
.