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
Mesembrina vespertina
Rondani, 1862
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 210 (key), 211 (description).
TYPE
LOCALITY: “
In Alpibus Insubriae
[
Insubrian
(=
Lombardy
,
Italy
)
Alps
]”
.
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♀
,
syntype
(covered with mold, missing fore- and right mid-legs) (
MZUF
: Box 21):
Mesembrina
Mgn
/
vespertina
Rnd.
,
♀
, Alpi
Ins
. [Insubrian (=
Lombardy
) Alps] / 1128.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of
Mesembrina mystacea
(Linnaeus, 1758)
(
Pont 1986b: 85
,
Gorodkov
et al.
1995: 11
).
REMARKS:
Rondani (1862d: 211)
described
Mesembrina vespertina
from just the female sex, without specifying either the
number
or the length of the specimens: “
foeminam tantum observavi …
lecta
et olim transmissa a D. Marietti
[I have seen only the female … collected and formerly sent by D. Marietti]”. We found
one syntype
in this study.