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
Pelecocera schinerii
Rondani, 1865
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865a: 135.
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
Im Kienthale bei Mödling
[= near
Vienna
]” (
Schiner 1860: 315
) [locality for
Pelecocera scaevoides
(
Fallén, 1817
)
sensu
Schiner (1860)
].
TYPE MATERIAL:
12 ♂♂
,
syntypes
(
NHMW
:
Box
5/82):
scaevoides
det.
Egger
/
Austria
Alte Sammlung
[= old collection];
1 ♂
,
syntype
(
NHMW
:
Box
5/82):
scaevoides
det.
Egger
/
Coll. Egger
Austria
;
9 ♀♀
,
syntypes
(
NHMW
:
Box
5/82):
scaevoides
det.
Egger
/
Coll. Egger
Austria
;
1 ♀
,
syntype
(
NHMW
:
Box
5/82):
scaevoides
det.
Egger
/
Coll. Egger
Austria
/
Pelecocera scaevoides
Fallen
det.
F.C. Thompson
1984/1985.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of
Chamaesyrphus scaevoides
(
Fallén, 1817
) (
Peck 1988: 95
)
.
REMARKS:
Rondani (1865a: 135)
proposed
Pelecocera schinerii
for
Pelecocera scaevoides
(
Fallén, 1817
)
sensu
Schiner (1860: 315)
, which he considered a new species. Rondani referred to Schiner’s redescription of
Pelecocera scaevoides
from an unspecified
number
of specimens collected by Egger, so the type material of
Pelecocera schinerii
Rondani
should be in either Schiner’s or Egger’s collection. In Egger’s collection (NHMW) we found
13 males
and
ten females
labeled as
Pelecocera scaevoides
, which we consider as
syntypes
of
Pelecocera schinerii
Rondani, 1865
.