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Metopia staegerii Rondani 1859

Description

Metopia staegerii Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 210.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Danicus [Denmark]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing right fore-, left mid- and both hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 276 / 702 / Lectotype Metopia staegerii Rndn., ♂, T. Pape det.

PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 702 / paralectotype Metopia staegerii Rndn., ♂, T. Pape det.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 3 ♂♂ (one missing left hind-leg, one missing left mid-leg) (MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 702 / Metopia italiana Pape, T. Pape det., 1984.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Metopia argentata Macquart, 1851 (Verves 1986: 97); valid species (Pape 1988: 16, 1996: 104, Povolný & Verves 1997: 105).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 210) described Metopia staegerii from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ marem tantum observavi [I observed only the male]”, received from R.C. Staeger. Pape (1985: 213) reported six specimens in the MZUF and designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotype (♂). Not included by him in the type series are an additional four specimens: three males (all paralectotypes) belonging, in his opinion, to a different species, and one female (non-type) because of its sex.

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 195, 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
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Metopia
Species
staegerii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Metopia staegerii Rondani, 1859 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Verves, Y. G. (1986) Family Sarcophagidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 12. Calliphoridae - Sarcophagidae. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam & Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 57 - 193.
  • Pape, T. (1988) A revision of the Palaearctic Sarcophagidae (Diptera) described by C. Rondani. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Series A (Biology), 416, 1 - 22.
  • Pape, T. (1996) Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the world (Insecta: Diptera). Memoirs on Entomology, International, 8, 1 - 558.
  • Povolny, D. & Verves, Y. (1997) The flesh-flies of Central Europe (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Spixiana, Supplement, 24, 1 - 260.
  • 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.
  • Pape, T. (1985) The identity of Metopia staegeri Rondani, 1859 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 16, 213 - 215. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631285 X 00081