Tabanus fulvissimus Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 285

Tabanus fulvissimus Rondani, 1875

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 458.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype ( MSNG): Sarawak / Typus / fulvissimus Rond. / Tabanus fulvissimus , n° 69.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♀ (in bad condition, almost completely eaten by dermestids, abdomen broken) ( MZUF: Box 71): Tabanus fulvissimus n. / Borneo, Sarawak, 1865–66, Coll. Doria / [no identification number ].

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Stone 1975: 59).

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 458) described Tabanus fulvissimus from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being two specimens in the type series found in this study, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Ricardo (1911: 206) reported “Type seen in the Museum of Genoa” without knowing of an additional female in the MZUF, which brings the original type series to two specimens. Ricardo did not unambiguously indicate a single specimen as the type, therefore she did not designate a lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). Guiglia (1957: 197) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG. In his original description Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single specimen, therefore Guiglia’s “ holotype ” specimen must be considered as the lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). The additional female in the MZUF not examined by Ricardo or Guiglia is a paralectotype.