Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani
Author
Sforzi, Alessandra
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Author
Sommaggio, Daniele
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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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Pipiza varians
Rondani, 1847
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1847d: 343.
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
Austria
” (
Fabricius 1805: 186
) [
type
locality for
Pipiza virens
(
Fabricius, 1805
)
].
TYPE
MATERIAL: see Remarks.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of
Pipizella virens
(
Fabricius, 1805
)
(
Peck 1988: 91
,
Belcari
et al.
1995a: 11
); junior synonym of
Pipizella maculipennis
(
Meigen, 1822
) (
Steenis & Lucas 2011: 156
)
.
REMARKS:
Rondani (1847d: 343)
considered
Pipiza virens
(
Fabricius, 1805
)
,
Pipiza campestris
(
Fallén, 1817
)
,
Pipiza maculipennis
(
Meigen, 1822
)
,
Pipiza varipes
(
Meigen, 1822
)
,
Pipiza annulata
(Macquart, 1829)
and
Pipiza morosa
(Loew, 1840)
as the same species but, instead of applying the Principle of Priority, he incorrectly proposed the substitute name
Pipiza varians
.
Rondani (1857: 186)
reaffirmed having proposed
Pipiza varians
to combine the above six nominal species plus
Pipiza geniculata
Curtis, 1835
.
Pipiza varians
was considered by
Schiner (1864: 111)
,
Verrall (1901: 23)
,
Bezzi & Stein (1907: 8)
and
Kertész (1910: 11)
as a synonym of
Pipiza virens
(
Fabricius, 1805
)
;
Bezzi (1892: 87
,
1894: 287
,
1900a: 92
) and
Bezzi & De Stefani-Perez (1897: 55)
treated it as a valid species. The type material for
Pipiza varians
will be the same as for the name it was proposed to replace, i. e.,
Pipiza virens
.
Steenis & Lucas (2011: 168)
stated that there is no type of
Pipiza virens
in the ZMUC where the Fabrician collection is preserved. They incorrectly stated that J.A.W. Lucas designated a
lectotype
in the
MNHN
. Under the name
Pipiza virens
there are
five specimens
(non-types) in the
MNHN
(Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 2020).
Michelsen (2017: 26)
listed this nominal species among the Fabrician
Diptera
types in the ZMUC. Under the name
Pipiza varians
there are
ten males
and
five females
in the MZUF,
one male
and
one female
in the MSNC and
one male
and
one female
in the MZUB.
Steenis & Lucas (2011: 156)
incorrectly designated a MZUF male of
Pipiza varians
as the
lectotype
.