Merodon canipilus Rondani, 1865

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 255

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981761

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scientific name

Merodon canipilus Rondani, 1865
status

 

Merodon canipilus Rondani, 1865 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865a: 131.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in colle sub-apennino ditionis Parmensis [Parmese sub-Apennine hill ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype ( MZUF: Box 2): Merodon Fb. Latr. / canipilus Rnd. , ♂ / 52.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Merodon clavipes (Fabricius, 1781) View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 169, Hurkmans 1993: 178, Belcari et al. 1995a: 16).

REMARKS: Rondani (1865a: 131) described Merodon canipilus from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ Semel captus mas [once the male collected]”. Hurkmans (1993: 178) designated a lectotype (♂).

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

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