Masicera juvenilis Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 330

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4982231

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scientific name

Masicera juvenilis Rondani, 1861
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Masicera juvenilis Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 18 (key), 25 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensi, et in planitiae [ Parmese hills and plains ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid- and hind-legs), 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 14): Masicera Macq. / iuvenilis Rnd. / 748 .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Lydella grisescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 204).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 25) described both sexes of Masicera juvenilis without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ Uterque sexus inventus [Collected both sexes]”, treating it within the subgenus Ceromasia Rondani, 1856 , which is now considered as a valid genus ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 50). We found three syntypes in this study. This nominal species was described as “ iuvenilis ”. The spelling “ iuvenilis ” was also used by O’Hara et al. (2011: 210) but other authors (Brauer-Bergenstamm 1891: 316, Meade 1892b: 129, Girschner 1899: 184, Bezzi & Stein 1907: 790, Herting 1984: 51, Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 204, Evenhuis & Pape 2020) spelled the name as “ juvenilis ”. The spelling “ juvenilis ” is in prevailing usage, and thus considered as correct (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 33.3.1).

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Masicera

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Lydella

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Masicera

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