Spathipalpus philippii Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 355

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scientific name	Spathipalpus philippii Rondani, 1863
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 21.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Valdivia [ Valdivia (southern Chile)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (very moldy) ( MZUN: Box Muscidae M02, 16): Spathipalpus philippii Rnd. , Chili [= Chile] / M. Zool. N° 11344.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Guimarães 1971: 118, O’Hara et al. 2020: 698).

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 21) described Spathipalpus philippii from just the female sex, giving a single measurement of length, from material received from R.A. Philippi. Costa (1866: 33) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “673”. We also found one syntype in this study.