Rioxa nox Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 373

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scientific name	Rioxa nox Rondani, 1875
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 437.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo) , Provincia Sarawak [ Bona Fortuna Island , Sarawak Province, Borneo]” ( Rondani 1875c: 421) .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (missing right wing and all legs except left mid- and hind-legs, left wing damaged) ( MSNG): Borneo, Sarawak, 1865/1866, Coll. Doria / Typus / nox Rond. / Rioxa nox n° 30.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Rioxa lancelolata Walker, 1856 ( Hardy 1977: 67, 1986, 122, Norrbom et al. 1999: 204).

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 437) described Rioxa nox from just the female sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 196), Hardy (1986: 122) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 57) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.