Merodon subfasciatus Rondani, 1845

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 258

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981783

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Merodon subfasciatus Rondani, 1845
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Merodon subfasciatus Rondani, 1845 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1845f: 257 (key), 261 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Sicilia [Sicily ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (missing head and right fore-leg, thorax partially eaten by dermestids, terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 2): Merodon Fb. Latr. / subfasciatus Rnd. , ♂, Sicil. / 59 / Merodon cinereus Fabr. , det. Hurkmans, 1987.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Merodon cinereus ( Fabricius, 1794) View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 168, Belcari et al. 1995a: 16).

REMARKS: Rondani (1845f: 261) described Merodon subfasciatus from a single male: “ è una specie che formo sopra un solo individuo … Questo esemplare è maschio [I described this species from a single specimen … This specimen is a male]”, received from M. Spinola. The MZUF contains an additional female numbered “59” received later from L. Bellardi ( Rondani 1857: 58).

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

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