Diopsis aethiopica 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.4981055

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scientific name

Diopsis aethiopica Rondani, 1873
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Diopsis aethiopica Rondani, 1873 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 289.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype ( MSNG): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / Typus / aethiopica Rond. / Diopsis aethiopica .

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 72): Diasemopsis aethiopica Rndn. / Bogos, 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / [no identification number].

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

REMARKS: Rondani (1873e: 289) described Diopsis aethiopica , 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. Guiglia (1957: 194) reported a “ holotype ” in the MSNG without knowing of an additional male in the MZUF—which brings the original type series to two specimens. In his original description Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single specimen therefore Guiglia’s “ holotype ” specimen must be considered as the lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). The additional male in the MZUF not examined by Guiglia is a paralectotype.

MSNG

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 'Giacomo Doria'

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Diopsidae

Genus

Diopsis

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