Toxophora aurifera Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 70

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Toxophora aurifera Rondani, 1848 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 98.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (missing right fore-leg) ( MZUN: Box Bombilidei B 03, 03): Toxophora aurifera Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11098 .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Toxophora aurea Macquart, 1848 View in CoL ( Evenhuis & Greathead 1999: 70, 2015: 78).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 98) described Toxophora aurifera , 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: 37) listed a single MZUN specimen (as Texophora [sic!] aurifera Phil. ) numbered “853”. Evenhuis & Greathead (1999: 70) reported the specimen in the MZUN to be a holotype. 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. Evenhuis & Greathead (1999: 70) reported the specimen in the MZUN to be a holotype.