Conops segethi Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 93

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scientific name	Conops segethi Rondani, 1863
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Conops segethi Rondani, 1863 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 13.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Chiliae [ Chile]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing abdomen) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Xylota a Conops ): Conops segethi Rnd. , Valdivia / M. Zool. N° 11300 / ♂; 1 ♀, syntype (dirty, covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Xylota a Conops ): ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Physocephala segethi View in CoL ( Papavero 1971: 8, Stuke 2017: 93).

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 13) described Conops segethi , without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens, from material received from R.A. Philippi, to whom he attributed the species name. Costa (1866: 32) listed two MZUN specimens (as Conops segethi Phil. ) numbered “654”. Stuke (2017: 93) reported one male and one female in the MZUN. We also found two syntypes in this study.