Pelecocera schinerii Rondani, 1865

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 264

Pelecocera schinerii Rondani, 1865

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865a: 135.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Im Kienthale bei Mödling [= near Vienna]” ( Schiner 1860: 315) [locality for Pelecocera scaevoides ( Fallén, 1817) sensu Schiner (1860) ].

TYPE MATERIAL: 12 ♂♂, syntypes ( NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Austria Alte Sammlung [= old collection]; 1 ♂, syntype ( NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria; 9 ♀♀, syntypes ( NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria; 1 ♀, syntype ( NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria / Pelecocera scaevoides Fallen det. F.C. Thompson 1984/1985.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Chamaesyrphus scaevoides ( Fallén, 1817) ( Peck 1988: 95) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1865a: 135) proposed Pelecocera schinerii for Pelecocera scaevoides ( Fallén, 1817) sensu Schiner (1860: 315) , which he considered a new species. Rondani referred to Schiner’s redescription of Pelecocera scaevoides from an unspecified number of specimens collected by Egger, so the type material of Pelecocera schinerii Rondani should be in either Schiner’s or Egger’s collection. In Egger’s collection (NHMW) we found 13 males and ten females labeled as Pelecocera scaevoides , which we consider as syntypes of Pelecocera schinerii Rondani, 1865 .