Volucella proxima Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 275

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981923

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FEDF-FEB9-5889-FD3FFE0C6569

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scientific name

Volucella proxima Rondani, 1857
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Volucella proxima Rondani, 1857

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 29 (key), 32 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Apennino parmensi [ Parmese Apennines ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one slightly covered with mold, the other missing right fore-, left mid-, and both hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 1): Volucella Gffr. / proxima Rnd., Apenn. [= Apennines] / 20.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Volucella bombylans (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Peck 1988: 128, Belcari et al. 1995a: 14).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 32) described Volucella proxima without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens, from material that he had collected and that he had also received from Bertè. We found two syntypes in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Volucella

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Volucella proxima Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele 2021
2021
Loc

Volucella bombylans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Peck 1988
1988
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