Phorantha musciformis Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 342-343

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

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scientific name

Phorantha musciformis Rondani, 1861
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Phorantha musciformis Rondani, 1861 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:1861b: 213 (key), 217 (description).

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing right wing) ( MZUF: Box 17): Phorantha Rnd. / musciformis Rnd. , ♂ / 932.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Phasia subcoleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1767) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 412, O’Hara et al. 2020: 601).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861b: 217) described both sexes Phorantha musciformis without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. We found just two male syntypes in this study. The female syntype (s) is/are presumed lost.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Phorantha

Genus

Agri

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Phasia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Phorantha

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