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Psalida meridiana Rondani 1868

Description

Psalida meridiana Rondani, 1868

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868a: 43.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro Panormitano [Palermo’s territory (Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid- and hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 16): Psalida Rndn. / meridiana Rndn. / 827; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right mid- and hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 16): Psalida Rndn. / meridiana Rndn. / Sicil. [= Sicily] / 827.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Leucostoma meridianum (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 420, Pape et al., 1995: 31, Cerretti 2010: 526, O’Hara et al. 2020: 594).

REMARKS: Rondani (1868a: 43) described Psalida meridiana from two males: “ mares duos misit D. Mina [sic !] - Palumbo [Mr. Minà-Palumbo sent two males]”.

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 pages 350-351, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Psalida
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Species
meridiana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Psalida meridiana Rondani, 1868 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. (1868 a) Diptera italica non vel minus cognita descripta vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Fasc. III. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 11, 21 - 54.