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
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Microdon aethiopicus
Rondani, 1873
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 282.
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
Sciotel
[
Sciotel
(
Eritrea
)]”
.
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♀
,
holotype
(
MSNG
):
Bogos
1870,
Sciotel, O
. Beccari /
Typus
/
aethiopicus
Rond.
,
♀
/
Microdon aethiopicus
♀
.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Smith & Vockeroth 1973: 509); valid species, as
Metadon aethiopicus
(
Reemer & Ståhls 2013: 133
)
.
REMARKS:
Rondani (1873e: 282)
described
Microdon aethiopicus
from just the female sex, without specifying the exact
number
of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by O. Beccari and O. Antinori.
Guiglia (1957: 195)
and
Raineri & Rey (1996: 52)
reported the
holotype
(
♀
) in the MSNG.