Spylosia majuscula Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 356

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

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Spylosia majuscula Rondani, 1859
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Spylosia majuscula Rondani, 1859 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 111 (key), 112 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensis … in Etruriam captum … et alterum melitensis … accepi [ Parmese territory … (a male) collected in Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy) … and another one on Malta Island]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, syntypes (two missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 12): Spylosia Rnd. Meigenia D. / majuscula Rnd. , ♂ / 571; 3 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore- and mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 12): Spylosia Rnd. Meigenia D. / majuscula Rnd. , ♀ / 571; 1 ♂, syntype (missing mid-legs), 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box E): Spylosia R. majuscula R., 217, ♂ ♀, Parma 393 217; 1 ♂, syntype (missing head, both fore-, right mid- and left hind-legs, right wing damaged) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Spylosia R. majuscula R. 32 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. C-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Spylosia majuscula R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. C-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 97): Spylosia Rnd. majuscula Rnd. , 88, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype (abdomen partially destroyed, missing left wing and left mid-leg) ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 167.5): syntype / Type / M. majuscula Ex. Coll. Big. / Meigenia majuscula Rond. det Herting /Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Meigenia majuscula (Rondani, 1859) , Palaearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Meigenia majuscula ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 146, Pape et al. 1995: 17, O’Hara et al. 2009: 52, 2020: 251).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 112) described both sexes of Spylosia majuscula , without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material he had collected and also received from F.M. Pecchioli and A. Schembri. We found 12 syntypes in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

PI

Paleontological Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Spylosia

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