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
89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5
Spathipalpus flavifrons
Rondani, 1863
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 21.
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
Valdivia
[
Valdivia
(southern
Chile
)]”
.
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♀
,
syntype
(very moldy) (
MZUN
: Box
Muscidae
M02, 16):
Spathipalpus flavifrons
Phil.
,
Chili
[=
Chile
] / M. Zool. N° 11345.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of
Spathipalpus philippii
Rondani, 1863
(
Guimarães 1971: 118
)
.
REMARKS:
Rondani (1863: 21)
described
Spathipalpus flavifrons
from just the female sex, giving a single measurement of length, from material received from R.A. Philippi.
Costa
(1866: 32)
listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “672”. We also found
one syntype
in this study.