Eristalis angustatus Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 245

Eristalis angustatus Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b:70.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] ( Papavero 1973: 343). See Remarks.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 72): Eristalomyia [sic!] angustata Rnd., Am. M. [= South America] / [no identification number]; 1 ♀, syntype (dirty) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Dolichomerus a Meromacrus ): Eristalomya angustata Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11241 / ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Palpada scutellaris ( Fabricius, 1805) ( Thompson et al. 1976: 109) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 70) described Eristalis angustatus from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being two specimens in the type series found in this study, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 39) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “622”. We found two syntypes in this study. 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.