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Pelecocera schinerii Rondani 1865

Description

Pelecocera schinerii Rondani, 1865

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865a: 135.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Im Kienthale bei Mödling [= near Vienna]” (Schiner 1860: 315) [locality for Pelecocera scaevoides (Fallén, 1817) sensu Schiner (1860)].

TYPE MATERIAL: 12 ♂♂, syntypes (NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Austria Alte Sammlung [= old collection]; 1 ♂, syntype (NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria; 9 ♀♀, syntypes (NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria; 1 ♀, syntype (NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria / Pelecocera scaevoides Fallen det. F.C. Thompson 1984/1985.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Chamaesyrphus scaevoides (Fallén, 1817) (Peck 1988: 95).

REMARKS: Rondani (1865a: 135) proposed Pelecocera schinerii for Pelecocera scaevoides (Fallén, 1817) sensu Schiner (1860: 315), which he considered a new species. Rondani referred to Schiner’s redescription of Pelecocera scaevoides from an unspecified number of specimens collected by Egger, so the type material of Pelecocera schinerii Rondani should be in either Schiner’s or Egger’s collection. In Egger’s collection (NHMW) we found 13 males and ten females labeled as Pelecocera scaevoides, which we consider as syntypes of Pelecocera schinerii Rondani, 1865.

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 264, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMW
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Pelecocera
Species
schinerii
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Pelecocera schinerii Rondani, 1865 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Schiner, I. R. (1860) Fauna Austriaca. Die Fliegen (Diptera). Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet, mit der Characteristik sammtlicher europaischer Gattungen, der Beschreibung aller in Deutschland vorkommenden Arten und der Aufzahlung aller bisher beschriebene europaischen Arten. I. Theil. [Heft 3 / 4]. C. Gerold's Sohn, Wien, pp. 185 - 368.
  • Fallen, C. F. (1817) Syrphici. In: Fallen, C. F., Diptera Sveciae. Litteris Berlingianis, Lundae [= Lund], pp. 43 - 54.
  • Peck, L. V. (1988) Family Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 8. Syrphidae - Conopidae. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam & Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 11 - 230.
  • Rondani, C. (1865 a) Diptera italica non vel minus cognita descripta vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Fasc. I. Oestridae - Syrphidae - Conopidae. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 8, 127 - 146.