Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani
Author
Sforzi, Alessandra
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Author
Sommaggio, Daniele
0000-0001-6974-7741
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-06-17
4989
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
1175-5326
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Myiophthiria lygaeoides
Rondani, 1878
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1878a: 154 (key), 155 (description).
TYPE LOCALITY: “
in
Insula Amboina
[on
Ambon Island
(=
Maluku Islands
)]”.
TYPE MATERIAL:
1 ♂
,
lectotype
(
MSNG
):
Amboina, 1873
, O. Beccari / Typus /
Myiophthiria lygaeoides
Rnd.
/
lygaeoides
Rndn.
/
Myiophthiria lygaeoides
Rndn.
, typus!
PARALECTOTYPE
EXAMINED:
1 ♀
(
MZUF
: Box 66):
Nabidoides
n.
ligaoides
[
sic
!] m. /
Amboina, 1873
,
O. Beccari
/ 3386
/
Paratype
lygaeoides
Rndn., T. C. Maa
, [19]62.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species
Myophthiria lygaeoides
(
Maa 1989a: 786
)
.
REMARKS:
Rondani (1878a: 155)
described
Myiophthiria lygaeoides
from
two specimens
: “
Exemplaria duo observata …
lecta
fuerunt a Cel. O. Beccari
[I observed
two specimens
… collected by Mr. O. Beccari]”.
Guiglia (1957: 195)
reported the MSNG male of
Myiophthiria lygaeoides
as “
holotype
”, without knowing of an additional male in the MZUF. She unambiguously selected a single specimen in the type series to serve as the namebearing type and therefore this specimen must be considered as the
lectotype
(I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.5).
Maa (1963: 43)
examined the MSNG and MZUF material for
Myiophthiria lygaeoides
and reported that Guiglia fixed the
lectotype
. He considered the MZUF female under the name
Nabidoides ligaoides
[
sic
!] as belonging to the type series. The MZUF specimen of
lygaeoides
is under the generic name
Nabidoides
but this is an unpublished name (
Maa, 1963: 43
). This nominal species was described under the generic name “
Myiophthiria
”, which is an “incorrect subsequent spelling of
Myophthiria
Rondani, 1875
” (
O’Hara
et al.
2011: 124
).