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Lomachantha parra Rondani 1859

Description

Lomachantha parra Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 151.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in ditione parmensi [Parmese territory (Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing left mid- and hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 12): Lomacantha [sic!] Rnd. / parra Rnd. / 582; 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold, missing mid-legs) (MZUF: Box 12): Lomacantha [sic!] Rnd. / parra Rnd. / 583; 1 ♂, syntype (MZUF: Box D): Lomacantha [sic!] R. parra R., 236, ♂, Parma / 393 236; 1 ♂, syntype (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Lomachantha parra R. 53 ♂ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. E-7 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 164, Pape et al. 1995: 18, Cerretti 2010: 146, O’Hara et al. 2020: 245).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 151) described both sexes of Lomachantha parra without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. The males and one female in the MZUF have different identification numbers. We found five syntypes in this study.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZUF
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Lomachantha
Species
parra
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Lomachantha parra 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.