Piophila melanocera Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 172

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981365

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scientific name

Piophila melanocera Rondani, 1875
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Piophila melanocera Rondani, 1875

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875a: 248 (key), 249 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ prope Parmam [near Parma (Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 34): Piophila Fall. / melanocera n. / 1779.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Piophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Zuska 1984: 238) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1875a: 249) described Piophila melanocera from more than one specimen without specifying either their number or sex: “ Bis tantum a me lecta … in cadaveribus equinis [collected twice … in the bodies of dead horses]”. We found two syntypes in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Lauxaniidae

Genus

Piophila

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Piophila melanocera Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele 2021
2021
Loc

Piophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758) (

Zuska 1984
1984
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