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Exorista caudata Rondani 1859

Description

Exorista caudata Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 121 (key), 139 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis [Parmese hills (Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♀♀, syntypes (covered with mold) (MZUF: Box 13): Thrycolyga Rndn. / caudata Rnd. / 666; 1 ♀, syntype (MSNPV: Box 97): Exorista caudata Rnd., 384, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype (MZUB: Box 325): 22 47 / Exorista caudata Rond., ex a. parmensi / caudata Rndn ♀ Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Phryxe caudata (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 193, Pape et al. 1995: 20, Cerretti 2010: 197, O’Hara et al. 2020: 346).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 139) described Exorista caudata from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths: “ Foeminam non raro legi… Mas ignotus [I not rarely collected the female… The male is unknown]”. We found four female syntypes in this study. An additional two MZUF specimens numbered “666” are not included in the type series: a male because of its sex, and a female because its label is yellowish rather than the greenish color of Rondani’s original handwritten ones and is in a lower row in the Box, for which reason we treat it to be a subsequent addition.

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 311, 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
Tachinidae
Genus
Exorista
Species
caudata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Exorista caudata Rondani, 1859 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Herting, B. & Dely-Draskovits, A. (1993) Family Tachinidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 13. Anthomyiidae - Tachinidae. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, pp. 118 - 458.
  • Pape, T., Richter, V., Rivosecchi, L. & Rognes, K. (1995) Diptera Hippoboscoidea, Oestroidea. In: Minelli, A., Ruffo, S. & La Posta, S. (Eds.), Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana. 78. Calderini, Bologna, pp. 1 - 36.
  • Cerretti, P. (2010) I tachinidi della fauna italiana (Diptera Tachinidae), con chiave interattiva dei generi ovest - paleartici. Volume I, Cierre Edizioni, Verona, 573 pp.
  • O'Hara, J. E., Henderson, S. J. & Wood, D. M. (2020) Preliminary checklist of the Tachinidae of the world. Version 2. 0. PDF document. Available from: http: // www. nadsdiptera. org / Tach / WorldTachs / Checklist / Worldchecklist. html (accessed 30 August 2020)
  • Rondani, C. (1859 b) Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol: III. Species italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analitica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis. Pars secunda: Muscidae, Siphoninae et (partim) Tachininae. A. Stocchi, Parmae [= Parma], 243 + [1] p., 1 pl.