Meromacrus ghilianii Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 259

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981793

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scientific name

Meromacrus ghilianii Rondani, 1848
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Meromacrus ghilianii Rondani, 1848 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 71.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] ( Papavero 1973: 343). See Remarks.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Dolichomerus a Meromacrus ): Meromacrus ghiliani [sic!] Rnd., Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11254 / ♂.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Thompson et al. 1976: 112).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 71) described Meromacrus ghilianii from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 32) listed a single MZUN specimen (as Meromacrus ghiliani [sic!]) numbered “634”. We also found one syntype in this study. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil.

MZUN

Museo Zoologico di Universita degli Studi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Meromacrus

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