Rhipidia (Rhipidia) cassandra (Alexander, 1945)

Ribeiro, Guilherme Cunha, Lamas, Carlos José Einicker & Azevedo, Leisa Nathalie Silva De, 2007, A catalogue of the types of Limoniidae and Tipulidae (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Zootaxa 1497, pp. 1-22 : 12

Rhipidia (Rhipidia) cassandra (Alexander, 1945)

Alexander, 1945a: 261–263 (original description); 281, figure 12 (male terminalia); (as Limonia). Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Juquiá.

Holotype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Brazil | São Paulo | Juquiá | 400m; XI - 40 [November, 1940] | Travassos”; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions on red paper: “ HOLOTYPE ♂ | Limonia | cassandra | C. P. Alexander”.

Preservation: mounted at the tip of a pinned paper triangle; part of abdomen glued at the paper triangle; part of abdomen with terminalia mounted on a plastic slide pinned with the specimen. Missing parts: left antenna, right wing and all legs except right middle leg.