Mallophora socculata Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 58

Mallophora socculata Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 93.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUN: Box Asilidei A 05, 03): Mallophora socculata Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11051 .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Martin & Papavero 1970: 76); junior synonym of Mallophora nigritarsis ( Fabricius, 1805) ( Artigas & Angulo 1980: 85, Papavero 2009: 40).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 93) described Mallophora socculata , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani and received from G. Mussino. Costa (1866: 36) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “804”. Artigas & Angulo (1980: 85) incorrectly concluded that the type of this nominal species had been lost. We found one syntype 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.