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Viviania nubilis Rondani 1861

Description

Viviania nubilis Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 54.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis, … in planitie [Parmese (Italy) hills … (and) plains]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one dirty, missing right mid-leg, the other dirty, missing right fore- and mid-legs) (MZUF: Box 15): Viviana [sic !] Rnd. / nubilis Rnd., ♂ / 765; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing fore- and right mid-legs) (MZUF: Box 15): Viviana [sic !] Rnd. / nubilis Rnd., ♀ / 765; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid- and hind-legs) (MZUF: Box D): Viviana [sic !] R. nubilis Rnd., 295, ♂, Parma / 393 295; 1 ♂, syntype (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Viviania R. nubilis R. 115 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-8 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid- and hind legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Viviania nubilis R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-9 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Conogaster pruinosa (Meigen, 1824) (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 147, O’Hara et al. 2020: 214).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 54) described both sexes of Viviania nubilis without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. We found seven 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 362, 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
Tracheophyta
Order
Geraniales
Family
Vivianiaceae
Genus
Viviania
Species
nubilis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Viviania nubilis Rondani, 1861 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Meigen, J. W. (1824) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vierter Theil. Schulz- Wundermann, Hamm, xii + 428 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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. (1861 e) Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol. IV. Species italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analatica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis. Pars tertia: Muscidae. Tachininarum complementum. A. Stocchi. Parmae [= Parma], 174 pp.