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 Culex scapularis Rondani, 1848 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 109. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil ]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63 ); [vicinity of Rio de Janeiro (Guanabara)] ( Belkin et al. 1971: 19 ); Belem (Pará), Brazil ] ( Papavero 1973: 341 , Arnell 1976: 57 ). See Remarks. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 specimen , syntype (sex not determinable, very moldy) ( MZUN : Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Tipulidae - Gen. Sciara a Culex ): Culex scapularis Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 10866. CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Aedes scapularis ( Arnell 1976: 57 , Guimarães 1997: 40 , Harbach 2018: 117 ). REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 109) described Culex scapularis from just the female sex, without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by V. Ghiliani and received from G. Mussino. Costa (1866: 40) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “941”. We also found one syntype in this study. Belkin et al. (1971: 19) restricted the type locality to the surroundings of Rio de Janeiro without any justification. Arnell (1976: 57) restricted the type locality to the vicinity of Belem following Papavero (1973: 343) . 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 .