Metopia staegerii Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 195

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5117182

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scientific name

Metopia staegerii Rondani, 1859
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Metopia staegerii Rondani, 1859 View in CoL View at ENA

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 210.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Danicus [ Denmark]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing right fore-, left mid- and both hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 276 / 702 / Lectotype Metopia staegerii Rndn. , ♂, T. Pape det.

PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 702 / paralectotype Metopia staegerii Rndn. , ♂, T. Pape det.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 3 ♂♂ (one missing left hind-leg, one missing left mid-leg) (MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 702 / Metopia italiana Pape, T. Pape det., 1984.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Metopia argentata Macquart, 1851 ( Verves 1986: 97) View in CoL ; valid species ( Pape 1988: 16, 1996: 104, Povolný & Verves 1997: 105).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 210) described Metopia staegerii from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ marem tantum observavi [I observed only the male]”, received from R.C. Staeger. Pape (1985: 213) reported six specimens in the MZUF and designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotype (♂). Not included by him in the type series are an additional four specimens: three males (all paralectotypes) belonging, in his opinion, to a different species, and one female (non-type) because of its sex.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sarcophagidae

Genus

Metopia

Loc

Metopia staegerii Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele 2021
2021
Loc

Metopia argentata

Macquart 1851
1851
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