Chrysops amazonius Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 280

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981944

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scientific name

Chrysops amazonius Rondani, 1863
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Chrysops amazonius Rondani, 1863 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 81.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Porto ricco [ Puerto Rico]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (very damaged, missing right wing) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Tabanidei - Gen. Agelanius a Coenura ): Chrysops amazonius Rnd., Amazonia / M. Zool. N° 10946 / Chrysops variegata ♀ De Gr. , det. C.B. Philip, 1957.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Chrysops variegatus (De Geer, 1776) View in CoL ( Fairchild 1971: 35, Coscarón & Papavero 2009: 16).

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 81) described Chrysops amazonius without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, from material received from M. Spinola. Costa (1866: 39) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “903”. Philip (1965a: 121) and Fairchild (1971: 39) reported a single type specimen (♀) in the MZUN. We also found one syntype in this study.

MZUN

Museo Zoologico di Universita degli Studi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tabanidae

Genus

Chrysops

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tabanidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tabanidae

Genus

Chrysops

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tabanidae

Genus

Chrysops

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