Rhyncheterus damascenus Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 372

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

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Rhyncheterus damascenus Rondani, 1863
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Rhyncheterus damascenus Rondani, 1863 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 37.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Soria [ Syria]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing head, slightly covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 72): Rincheterus [sic!] R. damascenus R., Damas [= Damascus] / [no identification number].

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Myopites inulaedyssentericae Blot, 1827 ( Foote 1984: 100, Norrbom et al. 1999: 169).

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 37) described Rhyncheterus damascenus from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from E. Truqui. We found one syntype in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Rhyncheterus

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