Cerocatus tarsalis Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 382

Cerocatus tarsalis Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 99.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (missing wings and mid-legs, antennae broken) ( MZUN: Box Asilidei A 05, 04): Cerocatus tarsalis Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11518 .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Hardy 1966b: 1, Kelsey 1969: 1, Webb et al. 2013: 33).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 99) described Cerocatus tarsalis , 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. Costa (1866: 38) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “866”. We also found one syntype in this study. This nominal species was thought to belong to the family Scenopinidae ( Hardy, 1966b) ; Kelsey (1969:1) placed Cerocatus tarsalis in Therevidae . Although Rondani (1848b: 99) 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.