Tephritis radiosa Rondani, 1868

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 376

Tephritis radiosa Rondani, 1868

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868b: 31.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Philippines. Luzon. Manille [Manila, Luzon, Philippines]” ( Macquart 1851a: 266) [type locality for Acinia stellata Macquart, 1851 ] .

TYPE MATERIAL: see Remarks.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Hexacinia radiosa ( Hardy 1977: 65, Norrbom et al. 1999: 159).

REMARKS: Macquart (1844: 384, 1851a: 266) described two different species under the same name, Acinia stellata . Rondani (1868b: 31) considered them as belonging to the genus Tephritis Latreille, 1804 , under which he also placed Musca stellata Fuesslin, 1775 , and proposed the new replacement names Tephritis siderata for Acinia stellata Macquart, 1843 and Tephritis radiosa for Acinia stellata Macquart, 1851 ( Rondani 1868b: 31) . Because the two species described by Fuesslin (1775) and Macquart (1844), respectively, did not belong to the same genus, Norrbom et al. (1999: 159) considered the name Tephritis siderata as unavailable, and the name Tephritis radiosa as valid. The type material for Tephritis radiosa Rondani, 1868 will be the same as for the name it was proposed to replace, i. e., Acinia stellata Macquart, 1851 . The single specimen from the Oriental Region in the Macquart-Bigot collection in the OUMNH (Oxford University Museum of Natural History 2020) is presumably the type for Acinia stellata .