Discocephala macula Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 53

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

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Discocephala macula Rondani, 1848
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 90.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] ( Papavero 1973: 343). See Remarks.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (head partially eaten by dermestids, missing right wing, abdomen crushed) ( MZUN: Box Asilidei A 05, 04): Discocephala macula Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11016 .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Holcocephala macula ( Martin & Papavero 1970: 7, Papavero 2009: 136).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 90) described Discocephala macula , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani and received from G. Mussino. Costa (1866: 36) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “784”. We also found one syntype in this study. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil.

MZUN

Museo Zoologico di Universita degli Studi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

Genus

Discocephala

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