Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 102

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981059

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scientific name

Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873
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Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 289.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Sciotel [Sciotel ( Eritrea)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 72): [no identification number] / Exechopsis beccarii R / Bogos, 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari; 47 ♂♂ ♀♀, syntypes (glued to cardboard stages on nine pins as follows: (1) 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀; (2) 2 ♂♂, 3♀♀; (3) 4 ♂♂, 2♀♀; (4) 4 ♂♂, 3 ♀; (5) 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀; (6) 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀; (7) 5 ♂♂; (8) 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀; (9) 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀) ( MSNG): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / Typus / beccarii Rond. / Syntypus Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873 ; 10 ♂♂, ♀♀, syntypes (glued to cardboard stages on two pins as follows: (1) 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀; (2) 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀) ( MSNG): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / Syntypus Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873 .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Sphyracephala beccarii ( Cogan & Shillito 1980: 584) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1873e: 289) described Diopsis beccarii without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material collected by O. Beccari and O. Antinori. Rondani did not select a holotype in his original description. Guiglia (1957: 194) reported “ Tipo e numerosi cotipi [Type and many cotypes]” in the MSNG. Raineri & Rey (1996: 35) reported “Typus, 2 Cotypi [Type, 2 Cotypes]”. None of these authors unambiguously identified a single specimen from the type series to serve as the namebearing type and therefore did not publish a lectotype designation (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.5). We found 58 syntypes in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

MSNG

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 'Giacomo Doria'

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Diopsidae

Genus

Diopsis

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