Merodon aerarius Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 254

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981755

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scientific name

Merodon aerarius Rondani, 1857
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Merodon aerarius Rondani, 1857 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 53 (key), 60 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in apennino parmensi [ Parmese Apennines ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 2): Merodon Fb. Latr. / aerarius Rndn., Apenn. [= Apennines] / 56 / Merodon aeneus Fabr. , det. Hurkmans, 1987; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 99): Merodon aerarius Rnd. , 364, Apenn. [= Apennines].

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Merodon aeneus Meigen, 1822 View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 166, Belcari et al. 1995a: 16); junior synonym of M. aureus ( Fabricius, 1805) ( Milankov et al. 2008: 1125) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 60) described Merodon aerarius from just the male sex without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ Mares tantum lecti [I collected only males]”. We found two syntypes in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

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