Dolichopus afer Rondani, 1873

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 104

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7028834

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FFAA-FFCC-5889-FAB7FB746729

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Plazi

scientific name

Dolichopus afer Rondani, 1873
status

 

Dolichopus afer Rondani, 1873 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 291.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (MSNG): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / afer Rond. , ♀ / Dolichopus afer ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Hercostomus afer View in CoL ( Dyte & Smith 1980: 450, Yang et al. 2006: 148).

REMARKS: Rondani (1873e: 291) described Dolichopus afer from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material collected by O. Beccari and O. Antinori. Guiglia (1957: 194) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 36) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Dolichopodidae

Genus

Dolichopus

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