Sphixapata pelopei, Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 210

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

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FF1C-FF7A-5889-FC7BFD8567C4

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scientific name

Sphixapata pelopei
status

 

S phixapata pelopei Rondani, 1859 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 224 (key), 228 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ tam in planitie, quam in montuosis agri parmensis [Parmese plains and mountains ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (pinned with a conspecific female), 1 ♀, paralectotype ( MZUF: Box 14): Sphixapata Rndn. / pelopei Rnd. , ♂ / 719 / lectotype Sphixapata pelopei Rndn., T. Pape det., 1986 / Amobia pelopei (Rnd.) , T. Pape, 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 2 ♂♂ (moldy), 2 ♀♀ (one with its puparium) ( MZUF: Box 14): Sphixapata Rndn. / pelopei Rnd. / 719 / paralectotype .

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MZUF: Box D): Sphixapata pelopei R., 276, ♂, Parma / 393 276; 1 ♂ (in poor condition, only part of thorax and both wings remain) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sphixapata pelopei Rnd. 96 ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-15 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ (MSNPV: Box 96): Sphixapata pelopei Rnd. , 166, ♀, Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Amobia pelopei View in CoL ( Verves 1986: 61, Pape 1988: 12, Pape et al. 1995: 11, Pape 1996: 74, Povolný & Verves 1997: 84; Krčmar et al. 2019: 103).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 228) described both sexes of Sphixapata pelopei without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but presumably from more than one specimen because he wrote: “ non rara [not rare]”. Pape (1988: 12) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional three specimens: one male in the MZUF, one male in the MSNC, and one female in the MSNPV (all are paralectotypes).

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sarcophagidae

Genus

Sphixapata

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