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
Tachina brucorum
Rondani, 1859
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 194 (key), 197 (description).
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
vel in
Liguria
vel
in Pedemontio
[
Liguria
as well as
Piedmont
(
Italy
)]”
.
TYPE MATERIAL:
2 ♀♀
,
syntypes
(one missing fore-, left mid- and hind-legs) (
MZUF
: Box 13):
Tachina
Mgn
/
brucorum
Rnd.
/ 683.
CURRENT STATUS: doubtful species of
Exorista
(
Adenia
)
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863
(
Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 133
).
REMARKS:
Rondani (1859b: 197)
described
Tachina brucorum
from just the female sex, without specifying the exact
number
of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being
two specimens
in the type series found in this study: “
Foeminam tantum observavi,
in collectione Mussino
[I observed only the female in Mussino’s collection]”. Giuseppe Mussino collected both in
Piedmont
and in
Liguria
.
Herting (1969: 191)
reported
two females
in the MZUF; we consider these as
syntypes
.