Diopsis aethiopica Rondani, 1873

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 102

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scientific name	Diopsis aethiopica Rondani, 1873
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Diopsis aethiopica Rondani, 1873 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 289.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Sciotel [Sciotel ( Eritrea)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype ( MSNG): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / Typus / aethiopica Rond. / Diopsis aethiopica .

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 72): Diasemopsis aethiopica Rndn. / Bogos, 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / [no identification number].

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Diasemopsis aethiopica ( Cogan & Shillito 1980: 584) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1873e: 289) described Diopsis aethiopica , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material collected by O. Beccari and O. Antinori. Guiglia (1957: 194) reported a “ holotype ” in the MSNG without knowing of an additional male in the MZUF—which brings the original type series to two specimens. In his original description Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single specimen therefore Guiglia’s “ holotype ” specimen must be considered as the lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). The additional male in the MZUF not examined by Guiglia is a paralectotype.

References

Cogan, B. H. & Shillito, J. F. (1980) Family Diopsidae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 583 - 587.

Guiglia, D. (1957) I tipi di ditteri di Camillo Rondani e di altri autori appartenenti alle collezioni del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genov a, 69, 193 - 207.

Rondani, C. (1873 e) Muscaria exotica Musei Civici Januensis observata et distincta. Fragmentum I. Species aliquae in Abyssinia (Regione Bogos) lectae a Doct. O. Beccari et March. O. Antinori, anno 1870 - 71. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 4, 282 - 294. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 9095