Eumerus truquii Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 251

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Eumerus truquii Rondani, 1857 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 88 (key), 95 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Pedemontio [Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (missing head) ( MZUF: Box 4): Eumerus Mgn / truquii Rnd., Pedem. [= Piedmont] / 141 / Eumerus barbarus det. Vujić 2014 / Holotype ♀ Eumerus truquii Rondani, 1857 det. J. van Steenis, 2016 ”

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Eumerus barbarus (Coquebert, 1804) View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 154, Belcari et al. 1995a: 14, Steenis et al. 2017: 147).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 95) described Eumerus truquii from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths: “ Semel mas species ad Equite Truqui missus [once Mr. Truqui sent the male of the species]”. Steenis et al. (2017: 149) considered the single MZUF male as the holotype.