Ferdinandea aurea Rondani, 1844

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 252

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981745

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Ferdinandea aurea Rondani, 1844
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Ferdinandea aurea Rondani, 1844 View in CoL View at ENA

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1844b: 198.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Italiae centralis collibus sub-apenninis [central sub-Apennine Italy]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 5): Chrysochlamis Rnd. / aurea Rndn. , ♂ / 244; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing left fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 5): Chrysochlamis Rnd. / aurea Rndn. , ♀ / 244; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box B): Chrysochlamis aurea Rndn. , 85, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 85; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right fore- and hindlegs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Chrysochlamys aurea Rnd. ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. A-5 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 99): Chrysochlamis aurea Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUB: Box 321): 20 90 / Chrysochlamis aurea Rond. , ex a. parmensi; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUB: Box 321): 20 91 / Chrysochlamis aurea Rond. , ex a. parmensi / aurea Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype ( OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box 39): syntype / C. aurea coll. Big / C. aurea Ex Coll. Bigot / C. aurea ♀ G. Ferdinandea Rond. Europa, Rond.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Peck 1988: 122, Belcari et al. 1995a: 11).

REMARKS: Rondani (1844b: 198) described Ferdinandea aurea without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but presumably from more than one specimen because he stated: “ frequens [common]”. We found 11 syntypes in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

PI

Paleontological Institute

MZUB

Museo di Zoologia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Ferdinandea

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