Megerlea caminaria var. furnaria Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 194

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

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scientific name

Megerlea caminaria var. furnaria Rondani, 1862
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Megerlea caminaria var. furnaria Rondani, 1862 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 134.

TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani gave no type locality in his original description but presumably it is Italy because the work deals with Italian species .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (very moldy) ( MZUF: Box 20): Megerlea Desv. / furnaria Rnd. / 1056 / lectotype ♂, Megerlea furnaria Rond., T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♀ (missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 20): Megerlea Desv. / furnaria Rnd. / 1056 / lectotype.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Nyctia halterata (Panzer, 1798) View in CoL ( Verves 1986: 116, Pape 1988: 8, 1996: 167).

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 134) described Megerlea furnaria as a variety of M. caminaria ( Meigen, 1826) without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens. Pape (1988: 8) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotype (♀).

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sarcophagidae

Genus

Megerlea

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