Aspilia funeralis Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 140

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981210

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FF46-FF20-5889-FC4AFCF4645C

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scientific name

Aspilia funeralis Rondani, 1866
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Aspilia funeralis Rondani, 1866 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 87 (key), 88 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Apennino parmensi [ Parmese Apennines ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, syntypes (two partially destroyed by the pin) ( MZUF: Box 22): Aspilia Rnd. / funeralis Rnd., Apenn. [= Apennines] / 1161.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Spilogona dispar (Fallén, 1823) ( Pont 1986b: 168, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 15).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 88) described Aspilia funeralis from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths: “ Raro lecta a Doct. Berteo et a me in Apennino parmensi, …, specimina mascula tantum [Rarely collected by Dr. Berteo and me in the Parma Apennines … only male specimens]”. We found three syntypes in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Aspilia

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