Somomya acutangula Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 74-75

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scientific name	Somomya acutangula Rondani, 1863
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 28.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Amer. Meridion. [ South America ]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (not a female as Rondani reported; covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Muscidae M02,15) : Somomyia [sic!] acutangula Rnd., Am. mer. [= South America ] / M. Zool. N° 11397 / ♂ .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, unplaced to genus of Calliphoridae ( James 1970: 15) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 28) described Somomya acutangula from just the female sex without giving any measurement of length, from material received from G. Genè. Costa (1866: 33) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “696”. We also found one syntype in this study.