Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani
Author
Sforzi, Alessandra
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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
Ephydridae
This family of acalyptrate flies contains more than 2,000 species (
Evenhuis & Pape 2020
).
Rondani (1847b
,
1856
,
1868b
,
1869c
) described four Palaearctic and one Neotropical nominal species. Three of these are currently considered as valid, one as a
nomen
dubium
,
and one (
Gymnopa opaca
Rondani, 1869
) was not included in any recent catalog (
Wirth 1968
,
Cogan 1984
,
Mathis
et al
., 1993
,
Mathis & Zatwarnicki 1995
,
Bächli
et al.
1995
,
Stuke 2011
). In his paper on the Rondani types at MZUB,
Morge (1959b)
listed two unpublished names (
nomina
nuda
) of Rondani.
Clausen (1979)
designated a
lectotype
for
Ochthera schembrii
Rondani, 1847
and
Mathis
et al
. (1993)
designated a
lectotype
for
Glabrinus murorum
Rondani, 1856
, both of them in the MZUF. Here, we designate a
lectotype
for
Ephydra ciligena
Rondani, 1868
. The type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is distributed among the MZUF (five), MZUB (three) and OUMNH (one).