Ptilops adolescens Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 351

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

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Ptilops adolescens Rondani, 1862
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Ptilops adolescens Rondani, 1862 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 167 (key), 171 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agri parmensis [ Parmese territory ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing left wing and left mid-leg, the other its left mid- and both hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 11): Ptilops Rnd. / adolescens Rnd. , ♂ / 550; 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold, missing right fore- and left mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 11): Ptilops Rnd. / adolescens Rnd. , ♀ / 550; 1 ♀, syntype (missing all but thorax and one leg) ( MZUF: Box 11): Ptilops Rnd. / adolescens Rnd. , ♀ / 295 / 550.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Dufouria chalybeata ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 394, O’Hara et al. 2020: 92).

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 171) described both sexes of Ptilops adolescens without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. We found four syntypes in this study.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Ptilops

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