Pachyrhyna pulchella Rondani, 1850

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 383

Pachyrhyna pulchella Rondani, 1850

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1850c: 195.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insulae S. Sebastiani [ San Sebastian Island ( Brazil)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MRSN: Box 1755): Pachirhyna [sic!] Mg pulchella Rndn., Ins. S. Sebast., Genè / Pachirhyna [sic!] pulchella Rond. 1850: 195 , Ins . S. Seb.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Nephrotoma pulchella ( Alexander & Alexander 1970: 17, Oosterbroek 2020).

REMARKS: Rondani (1850c: 195) described Pachyrhyna pulchella from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from E. Truqui. We also found one syntype in this study. This nominal species was described under the generic name Pachyrhyna , which is an “unjustified emendation of Pachyrhina Macquart, 1834 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 136).