Platypalpus romaniolus Raffone

Barták, Miroslav & Kubík, Štěpán, 2016, New species and new synonyms in European Platypalpus (Diptera: Hybotidae), Zootaxa 4175 (2), pp. 142-154 : 151

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.2.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7C00BAE3-CC2E-477C-8073-0A079058FB97
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688304
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scientific name	Platypalpus romaniolus Raffone
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Platypalpus romaniolus Raffone View in CoL

Platypalpus romaniolus Raffone, 2010: 44 View in CoL .

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE Ƌ, labelled: “Casale Borsetti, (Ravenna), Boschetto Sud, 15.IV.1978 / Platypalpus romaniolus n. sp. Det. Raffone G. 2009 / Holotypus Ƌ” [genitalia dissected] (MSNV). PARATYPE ♀ labelled: “Casale Borsetti, (Ravenna), Boschetto Sud, 19-IV-1978 / Platypalpus romaniolus n. sp. Det. Raffone G. 2009 / Paratypus ♀” (MSNV).

Notes on type material. Both holotype (well preserved, only right antenna missing, genitalia dissected, stored in plastic microvial) and paratype (without left fore and mid legs and right tibia) are specimens of P. longiseta (Zetterstedt) .

Platypalpus romaniolus is considered a new junior synonym of P. longiseta .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Hybotidae
Genus	Platypalpus