Chortophila liturata Rondani, 1868

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 42

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scientific name	Chortophila liturata Rondani, 1868
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868b: 28.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires ( Argentina)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 72): Chorthophila [sic!] liturata Rnd., Am. Mer. [= South America] / 869 [rectangular cardboard label]; 1 ♀, syntype (dirty, missing left fore- and right mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 72): Chorthophila [sic!] liturata Rnd., Am. Mer. [= South America] / [no identification number].

CURRENT STATUS: unrecognized species of Anthomyiidae ( Pont 1974: 10) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1868b: 28) described Chortophila liturata , without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens, from material received from P. Strobel. Two syntypes were found in this study. Rondani (1868b) indicated the type locality as Buenos Aires ( Argentina) where Strobel taught from 1865–1867, but the specimens are labeled “ Am. Mer. ” (= “ America Meridionali ”) [South America].