Melophagus rupicaprinus Rondani, 1879

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 122

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981098
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scientific name	Melophagus rupicaprinus Rondani, 1879
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1879: 12.

TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani gave no type locality in his original description. Guiglia (1957: 195) gave “ Alpi occidental. [= western Alps ]” as the type locality probably because the species was collected by Ghiliani on Rupicapra rupicapra (Linnaeus, 1758) , which is present on the Alps .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype ( MSNG): Antilope rupicapra D. Ghiliani / Typus / rupicaprinus Rndn. / Melophagus rupicaprinus Rndn. , Typus!

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Soós & Hůrka 1986: 226, Pape et al. 1995: 8).

REMARKS: Rondani (1879: 12) described Melophagus rupicaprinus from a single specimen: “ Exemplar unicum observavi [I observed a single specimen]”. Guiglia (1957: 196) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 34) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.