Eristalis proximus Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 246

Eristalis proximus Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 69.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] ( Papavero 19073: 343). See Remarks .

TYPE MATERIAL: not found in this study.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Palpada fasciata (Wiedemann, 1819) ( Thompson et al. 1976: 105) ; junior primary homonym of Eristalis proxima Zetterstedt, 1843 ( Evenhuis & Pape 2020).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 69) described Eristalis proximus , without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil. This is one of the few exotic species described in Rondani (1848b) that Costa (1866) did not list as in the MZUN. We could not locate any type specimens of this nominal species in our study.