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
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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
Mythicomyiidae
This family, proposed by Melander in 1902, contains 421 predominantly Nearctic and Palaearctic species (
Evenhuis & Pape 2020
) and is considered to be the sister group of
Bombyliidae (
Marshall 2012
)
.
Zaitzev (1989)
and
Pape
et al
. (2011)
considered it as a subfamily of
Bombyliidae
.
Rondani (1863)
described two Palaearctic species in
Mythicomyiidae
, both considered as valid (
Zaitzev 1989
,
Contini
et al.
1995
,
Evenhuis 2002
). The
type
material was not found in this study and is presumed lost.