Rhopalomera punctipennis Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 190

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scientific name	Rhopalomera punctipennis Rondani, 1848
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Rhopalomera punctipennis Rondani, 1848 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 80.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore-, mid- and hind-legs) ( MZUN: Box Antomidei A 02, 01): Rhopalomera punctipennis Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11436 .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Ropalomera stictica Wiedemann, 1830 View in CoL ( Steyskal 1967b: 3; Prado & Papavero 2009: 4).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 80) described Rhopalomera punctipennis , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement range of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 34) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “722”. We also found one syntype in this study. Rondani (1848b: 80) described this nominal species under the generic name “ Rhopalomera ”, which is an incorrect subsequent spelling of Ropalomera Wiedemann, 1820 or subsequent usage of Rhopalomera Agassiz, 1846 . 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.