Myophthiria reduvioides Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 123

Myophthiria reduvioides Rondani, 1875

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 464.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo) , Provincia Sarawak [ Bona Fortuna Island, Sarawak Province, Borneo]” ( Rondani 1875c: 421).

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing hind-leg) ( MSNG): Sarawak / Typus / Myiophthiria [sic!] reduvioides / reduvioides Rndn. / Myiophthiria reduvioides Rndn. , Typus!

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 66): Myiophthyria [sic!] R. / reduvioides Rnd. / 3387 / Paratype reduvioides Rndn. , ♂, T. C. Maa, [19]62.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Maa 1977a: 411).

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 464) described Myophthiria reduvioides , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being two specimens in the type series found in this study, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. He later ( Rondani 1878a: 154) reported having some specimens: “ specimina aliqua observata [I observed some specimens]”. Guiglia (1957: 194) reported a “ holotype ” in the MSNG without knowing of an additional male in the MZUF, which brings the original type series to two specimens. In his original description Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single specimen therefore Guiglia’s “ holotype ” specimen must be considered as the lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). Maa (1963: 61) reported the “ lectotype ♂ (Genova Mus.) fixed by Guiglia (1957: 195) ” and considered the MZUF male as belonging to the type series. The additional male in the MZUF not examined by Guiglia is a paralectotype.