Tipula punctifrons Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 384

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scientific name	Tipula punctifrons Rondani, 1875
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 463.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo) , Provincia Sarawak [ Bona Fortuna Island , Sarawak Province, Borneo]” ( Rondani 1875c: 421) .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (head, thorax and three legs on one pin, one leg and part of a wing glued to a cardboard stage on a separate pin) ( MSNG): Sarawak / Typus / punctifrons Rond. / Tipula punctifrons n° 80 [head, thorax and three legs], Typus / punctifrons Rond. / Tipula punctifrons n. [one leg, part of a wing].

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Alexander & Alexander 1973: 29); valid species, as Holorusia punctifrons ( Oosterbroek, 2020) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 463) described Tipula punctifrons from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 196) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 59) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.