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 Promacus taeniopus Rondani, 1873 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 292. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Keren [Keren ( Eritrea )]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀ , lectotype ( MSNG ): Bogos, 1870, Keren, O. Beccari / Promacus taeniopus Rond. / Typus / taeniopus Rond. / Syntypus ♀ Promacus taeniopus C. Rondani, 1873 . PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MSNG ): Bogos , 1870, Keren, O . Beccari / Syntypus ♂ Promacus taeniopus C. Rondani, 1873 . PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♀ ( MZUF : Box 71): Promacus taeniopus Rns., Abiss. [= Abyssinia ( Eritrea )] / Bogos 1870, Keren, O . Beccari . CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Alcimus taeniopus ( Oldroyd 1980: 335 ) . REMARKS: Rondani (1873f: 292) described Promacus taeniopus , without specifying the number of specimens and without selecting a holotype , from material collected by O. Beccari and O. Antinori. Guiglia (1957: 196) reported the “type” and one “cotype” of Promacus taeniopus in the MSNG [ ♀ ♂ . Type and cotype]. She unambiguously selected the type (female) and cotype (male), which therefore must be considered, respectively, as the lectotype and paralectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.5). Raineri & Rey (1996: 30) incorrectly reported “Typus, Cotypus ( ♂ , ♀ )”. Neither Guiglia (1957) nor Raineri & Rey (1996) mentioned the MZUF female (this additional specimen is a paralectotype ). Rondani described this nominal species under the generic name “ Promacus ”, which is an “incorrect subsequent spelling of Promachus Loew, 1848 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 151 ).