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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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
Prosena sybarita
Rondani, 1861
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861d: 280.
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
Havniae
[= Copenhagen (
Denmark
)]” (
Fabricius, 1775: 798
) [
type
locality for
Prosena siberita
(
Fabricius, 1775
)
].
TYPE
MATERIAL: see Remarks.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of
Prosena siberita
(
Fabricius, 1775
)
(
Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 367
,
O’Hara & Cerretti 2016: 108
).
REMARKS:
Rondani (1861d: 280)
proposed the substitute name
Prosena sybarita
for
Prosena siberita
(
Fabricius, 1775
)
in reference to the locality “Sybaris” [= Sibari,
Italy
], which was not reported in the original description by
Fabricius (1775: 798)
.
Pandellé (1896: 161)
considered
Prosena sybarita
as junior synonym of
Prosena siberita
.
Bezzi & Stein (1907: 448)
listed the species as
Prosena sybarita
(
Fabricius, 1775
)
. Herting & Dely- Draskovits (1993: 367),
O’Hara
et al.
(2011: 214)
,
O’Hara & Cerretti (2016: 108)
and
Evenhuis & Pape (2020)
listed
Prosena sybarita
as an available name, unjustified emendation of
Prosena siberita
. The
type
material for
Prosena sybarita
will be the same as for the name it was proposed to replace, i. e.,
Prosena siberita
. There is no
type
of
Prosena siberita
in the ZMUC where the Fabrician collection is preserved (
Michelsen 2017
).