Litorhina corticea (Bezzi, 1924)

Greathead, David J. & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2004, New species of Bombylioidea in Mario Bezzi’s Unpublished Hungarian Museum Manuscript, Zootaxa 773, pp. 1-56 : 42

Litorhina corticea (Bezzi, 1924)

69. Litorrhynchus corticeus 1ɗ Eritrea: Keren. MS page [71].

Bezzi, 1924: 212 – key only.

Greathead, 1967: 264 – designation of a neotype from Chad with description. Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 413 – listed the neotype from Chad in BMNH. Types: Bezzi (1924: 214) in his description of L. corticea var. corticalis stated that the “ type ” from Keren was in the “Budapest Museum”. This is the holotype that was destroyed in 1956. The species is now represented by the neotype designated by Greathead (1967), which is in BMNH.

Remarks: No specimens from Eritrea were found that matched the characters in Bezzi’s (1924) key for L. corticea but a male specimen from Chad did so and was designated neotype in Greathead (1967). The neotype specimen was described and the genitalia were illustrated. Bezzi’s (1924) L. corticea var. corticalis was described from a male from Ethiopia. The female from Uganda originally identified as L. corticea var. corticalis is a different species.