Merodon pudicus Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 257

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scientific name	Merodon pudicus Rondani, 1857
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Merodon pudicus Rondani, 1857 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 52 (key), 56 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Pedemontio [Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (head and thorax mostly eaten by dermestids, missing hind-legs, two abdominal tergites in a microvial pinned below specimen, missing terminalia) ( MZUF: Box 2): Merodon Fb. Latr. / pudicus Bellardi, Alpi / 58 / Merodon indet.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Merodon cinereus ( Fabricius, 1794) View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 168, Belcari et al. 1995a: 16, Sommaggio 2007: 123).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 56) described Merodon pudicus from a single male: “ lecta a Prof. Bellardi a quo exemplar masculum obtinui [collected by Prof. Bellardi from whom I obtained a male specimen].