Masicera gyrovaga Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 329

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4982221

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scientific name

Masicera gyrovaga Rondani, 1861
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Masicera gyrovaga Rondani, 1861 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 17 (key), 20 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensi … in collibus [ Parmese territory ( Italy) … on hills]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing right mid- and hind-legs), 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold, missing forelegs) ( MZUF: Box 14): Masicera Macq. / girovaga [sic!] Rnd. / 739; 1 ♀, syntype (missing abdomen, both mid- and hind-legs; its puparium pinned below specimen) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Masicera Maq. girovaga [sic!] Rnd. 101 ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. A-4 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Drino vicina (Zetterstedt, 1849) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 208) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 20) described both sexes of Masicera gyrovaga without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of length. We found three syntypes in the MZUF.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

PI

Paleontological Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Masicera

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