Tabanus alboscutatus Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 283-284

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scientific name	Tabanus alboscutatus Rondani, 1875
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 456.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype ( MSNG): Borneo , Sarawak, 1865/1866, Coll. Doria / typus / alboscutatus Rond . / Tabanus alboscutatus n° 65.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Tabanus optatus Walker, 1856 ( Stone 1975: 65) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 456) described Tabanus alboscutatus from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Ricardo (1911: 139) reported having examined the MSNG type (♀). Guiglia (1957: 196) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 54) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.