Phorocera elongata Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 345

Phorocera elongata Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 75.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (not a male as given in the description) ( MZUN: Box Muscidae M02, 16): Phorocera elongata Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11339.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, unplaced to genus of Goniinae ( Guimarães 1971: 215) ; valid species, unplaced to genus of Exoristinae ( O’Hara et al. 2020: 542) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 75) described Phorocera elongata from a single male, apparently mis-sexing it: “ individuum collectionis meae [the specimen of my collection]”, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 33) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “671”. We found only a single female in the MZUN, which we consider as the holotype. Although Rondani (1848b: 99) 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.