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Stratiomys pellucida Rondani 1848

Description

Stratiomys pellucida Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 102.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (not a female as given in the description) (dirty, covered with mold) (MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Stratiomidei - Gen. Philocera a Psellidotus): Stratiomys pellucida Rnd., Brasile / M. Zool. N° 10965.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species (James 1973: 46, Woodley 2001: 304).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 102) described Stratiomys pellucida 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. Costa (1866: 38) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “879”. 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.

Notes

Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Stratiomys
Species
pellucida
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Stratiomys pellucida Rondani, 1848 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Rondani, C. (1848 b) Esame di varie specie d'insetti ditteri brasiliani. Studi Entomologici, 1 (1), 63 - 112, pl. IIIbis.
  • Papavero, N. (1973) Essays on the history of Neotropical dipterology, with special reference to collectors (1750 - 1905). Vol. 2. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo, pp. 217 - 446.
  • James, M. T. (1973) Family Stratiomyidae. In: Papavero, N. (Ed.), A catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas south of the United States. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 26, 1 - 95.
  • Woodley, N. E. (2001) World catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera). Myia, 11, 1 - 473.
  • Costa, A. (1866) Acquisti fatti durante l'anno 1863. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Regia Universita di Napoli, 3, 13 - 48.
  • Spinola, M. (1853) Compte rendu des hymenopteres inedits provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Series 2, 13, 19 - 94.