Thrychogena brevifrons Rondani, 1856

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 360

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12683056

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Thrychogena brevifrons Rondani, 1856
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Thrychogena brevifrons Rondani, 1856 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1856: 65.

TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani gave no type locality in his original description, but later ( Rondani 1859b: 87) added “ in agro parmensi, praesertim in montuosis [ Parmese territory ( Italy), above all on mountains]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 11): Macquartia Desv. / brevifrons Rnd. / 537 / lectotype ♂ Thrychogena brevifrons Rondani, 1856 , Cerretti and O’Hara des., 2013 / Loewia brevifrons ( Rondani, 1856) , Cerretti and O’Hara det., 2013.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 4 ♀♀ (one covered with mold, thorax partially eaten by dermestids, missing fore- and left hind-legs; one covered with mold; one partially eaten by dermestids, missing left fore- and both mid-legs; one missing right fore-, left mid- and both hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 11): Macquartia Desv. / brevifrons Rnd. / 537 / paralectotype ♀ Thrychogena brevifrons Rondani, 1856 , Cerretti and O’Hara des., 2013 / Loewia brevifrons ( Rondani, 1856) , Cerretti and O’Hara det., 2013); 1 ♀ ( MZUF: Box E): Macquartia Desv. brevifrons Rnd. , 205, ♀, Parma / 393 205.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED. 1 ♂ (missing left mid-leg) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Macquartia brevifrons R. 21 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. B-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ (missing left mid-leg) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Macquartia brevifrons R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. B-14 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂ (missing left fore-leg) (OUMNH General Collection: Box 166.7): syntype / Type / M. brevifrons Ex. Coll. Big. / Loewia brevifrons ( Rondani, 1856) det. Herting / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. (OUMNH) OUMNH–1967–018 / Tachinidae Tachininae Loewia brevifrons ( Rondani, 1856) , Palaearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Loewia brevifrons ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 307, Pape et al. 1995: 26, Cerretti 2010: 342, O’Hara et al. 2020: 647).

REMARKS: Rondani’s (1856: 65) key for the genus Thrychogena Rondani, 1856 lists Thrychogena brevifrons as its type species, but he did not provide a detailed description, type locality, number or sex of the specimens. He later ( Rondani 1859b: 86) provided specific characters for the male and female and moved the species to the genus Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . Cerretti et al. (2014: 452) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (5 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional male and female in the MSNC and a male in the OUMNH (all are paralectotypes).

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Thrychogena

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