Exorista cheloniae Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 311

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5117286

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Exorista cheloniae Rondani, 1859
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Exorista cheloniae Rondani, 1859 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 120 (key), 138 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis et in planitie … in Pedemontio [ Parmese hills and plains … Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, syntypes (one slightly covered with mold and missing right mid-leg; one missing left midleg), 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing left fore-leg, the other slightly covered with mold and missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 13): Exorista Mgn / cheloniae Rnd. / 641; 1 ♂, syntype (covered with mold), 1 ♀, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box E): Exorista cheloniae R., 229, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 229; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Exorista cheloniae R. 45 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. D-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore- and both mid legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Exorista cheloniae R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. D-14 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 97): Exorista cheloniae R., 103, ♂ ♀, Parma; 2 ♂♂, syntypes ( MRSN: Box 1755): 3 66 / Ex. cheloniae Rond., Stupinigi [= Stupinigi (Piedmont)], ♂; 3 ♀♀, syntypes ( MRSN: Box 1755): 3 66 / Ex. cheloniae Rond., Torino [Turin (Piedmont)], ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Carcelia lucorum ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 214, O’Hara et al. 2020: 299).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 138) described both sexes of Exorista cheloniae without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single a range of lengths, from material received from G. Mussino and E. Truqui. We found 15 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

Exorista

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