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
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
1175-5326
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Phorocera elongata
Rondani, 1848
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 75.
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
Brasile
[
Brazil
]” (
Rondani 1848b: 63
); Belem (Pará),
Brazil
(
Papavero 1973: 343
).
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♀
,
holotype
(not a male as given in the description) (
MZUN
: Box
Muscidae
M02, 16):
Phorocera elongata
Rnd.
,
Brasile
/ M. Zool. N° 11339.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species, unplaced to genus of
Goniinae (
Guimarães 1971: 215
)
; valid species, unplaced to genus of
Exoristinae (
O’Hara
et al.
2020: 542
)
.
REMARKS:
Rondani (1848b: 75)
described
Phorocera elongata
from a single male, apparently mis-sexing it: “
individuum collectionis meae
[the specimen of my collection]”, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani.
Costa (1866: 33)
listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “671”. We found only a single female in the MZUN, which we consider as the
holotype
. Although
Rondani (1848b: 99)
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
.