Sarcophaga circumcisa Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 199

Sarcophaga circumcisa Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 76.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] ( Papavero 19073: 343). See Remarks .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUN: Box Daxiidei D 01, 01): Sarcophaga circumcisa Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11381 / ♂ .

CURRENT STATUS: doubtful species of Sarcophaginae ( Lopes 1969: 53, Pape 1996: 443).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 76) described Sarcophaga circumcisa from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani and received from G. Mussino. Costa (1866: 33) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “689”. 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.