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
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Exorista comata
Rondani, 1859
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 120 (key), 137 (description).
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
in collibus
et planitie ditionis
parmensis
[
Parmese
hills and plains (
Italy
)]”
.
TYPE MATERIAL:
3 ♂♂
,
syntypes
(one missing left mid-leg; one missing mid-legs) (
MZUF
: Box 13):
Exorista
Mgn
/
comata
Rnd.
/ 640;
1 specimen
,
syntype
(sex not determinable) (
MSNC
: Box
DIPTERA
Ex collezione Rondani - I):
Exorista comata
R. 384
Parma
/ Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. B-5 / Museo di
Storia Naturale
Università di Pisa, Calci (
PI
) ex collezione Rondani.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of
Carcelia lucorum
(
Meigen, 1824
) (
Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 214
)
.
REMARKS:
Rondani (1859b: 137)
described
Exorista comata
from just the male sex, without specifying the exact
number
of specimens and giving a single measurement of length: “
Mascula tantum pauca inveni
[I found a few males only]”. We found
four syntypes
in this study:
three males
in the
MZUF
and
one specimen
(sex not determinable) in the
MSNC
. An additional
MZUF
specimen numbered “640” is not included in the type series because its label is yellowish rather than the greenish color of Rondani’s original handwritten ones and is in a lower row in the Box, for which reason we treat it to be a subsequent addition
.