Sphixea doriae Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 268

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FEC6-FEA0-5889-F981FE9366CA

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Plazi

scientific name

Sphixea doriae Rondani, 1875
status

 

Sphixea doriae Rondani, 1875 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 422.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MSNG): Sarawak / typus / doriae Rond. / Sphixea doriae n° 3.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Milesia doriae ( Knutson et al. 1975: 363) View in CoL ; junior synonym of Milesia diardi Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863 ( Hippa 1990: 184) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 422) described Sphixea doriae from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 196), Raineri & Rey (1996: 52) and Hippa (1990: 186) reported the holotype (♂) in the MSNG.

MSNG

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 'Giacomo Doria'

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Sphixea

Loc

Sphixea doriae Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele 2021
2021
Loc

Milesia diardi

Snellen van Vollenhoven 1863
1863
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