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 Meromacrus ghilianii Rondani, 1848 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 71. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil ]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63 ); [Belem (Pará), Brazil ] ( Papavero 1973: 343 ). See Remarks. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂ , syntype ( MZUN : Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Dolichomerus a Meromacrus ): Meromacrus ghiliani [ sic !] Rnd., Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11254 / ♂ . CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Thompson et al. 1976: 112 ). REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 71) described Meromacrus ghilianii from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 32) listed a single MZUN specimen (as Meromacrus ghiliani [ sic !]) numbered “634”. We also found one syntype in this study. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil .