Stratiomys sericeiventris Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 234

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5117239
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FF24-FF42-5889-FC92FD1C6400
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Stratiomys sericeiventris Rondani, 1848
status

Treatment

Stratiomys sericeiventris Rondani, 1848 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 102.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] ( Papavero 1973: 343). See Remarks.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 specimen, syntype (sex not determinable, dirty, covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Stratiomidei - Gen. Philocera a Psellidotus ): Stratiomys sericeiventris Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 10967; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right wing) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Stratiomidei - Gen. Philocera a Psellidotus ): ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Hoplitimyia mutabilis ( Fabricius, 1787) View in CoL ( James 1973: 42, Woodley 2001: 266).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 102) described Stratiomys sericeiventris from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being two specimens in the type series found in this study, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1864: 87, 1866: 38) listed two MZUN specimens, one numbered “2601” and one “880”. We also found two syntypes in this study. 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.