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
Merodon pudicus
Rondani, 1857
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 52 (key), 56 (description).
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
in Pedemontio
[
Piedmont
(
Italy
)]”
.
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♂
,
holotype
(head and thorax mostly eaten by dermestids, missing hind-legs, two abdominal tergites in a microvial pinned below specimen, missing terminalia) (
MZUF
: Box 2):
Merodon
Fb. Latr.
/
pudicus
Bellardi, Alpi
/ 58 /
Merodon
indet.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of
Merodon cinereus
(
Fabricius, 1794
)
(
Peck 1988: 168
,
Belcari
et al.
1995a: 16
,
Sommaggio 2007: 123
).
REMARKS:
Rondani (1857: 56)
described
Merodon pudicus
from a single male: “
lecta
a Prof. Bellardi a quo exemplar
masculum
obtinui
[collected by Prof. Bellardi from whom I obtained a male specimen].