Syrphus flaviceps Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 271-272

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981893

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scientific name

Syrphus flaviceps Rondani, 1857
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Syrphus flaviceps Rondani, 1857 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 126 (key), 133 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus subapenninis agri parmensi [Parmese sub-Apennine hills ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 5): Syrphus Fabr. / flaviceps Rnd. / 216 / Lectotypus Syrphus flaviceps Rondani, Dušek & Láska, 1974 / Metasyrphus flaviceps (Rnd.) det. M. Daccordi, 1985.

PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♀ ( MZUF: Box 5): Syrphus Fabr. / flaviceps Rnd. / 216 / Paralectotypus Syrphus flaviceps Rondani, Dušek & Láska, 1974 / E. bucculatus det. Mazánek et Láska, 2003.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing right hind-leg) (MZUF: Box B): Syrphus flaviceps R., 71, ♀ [sic!], Parma / 393 71; 1 ♂ (MZUF: Box 5): Syrphus Fabr. / flaviceps Rnd. / 216 / Syrphus corollae Fabr. , det. P. Láska, 1970; 1 ♂ (missing head and right mid-leg) (MZUF: Box 5): Syrphus Fabr. / flaviceps Rnd. / 216 / Syrphus latifasciatus Macq. , det. P. Láska, 1970; 3 ♀♀ (MZUF: Box 5): Syrphus Fabr. / flaviceps Rnd. / 216; 1 ♀ (missing both mid-legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Syrphus flaviceps Rnd. ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 3, posiz. H-1 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ (MSNPV: Box 98): Syrphus flaviceps R., ♀, Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Eupeodes flaviceps View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 33, Belcari et al. 1995a: 7).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 133) described both sexes of Syrphus flaviceps without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length. Dušek & Láska (1976: 274) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotype (♀) but did not mention an additional eight specimens: six in the MZUF, one in the MSNC and one in the MSNPV (all are paralectotypes).

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Syrphus

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