Volucella pectoralis Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 274

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981921

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scientific name

Volucella pectoralis Rondani, 1863
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Volucella pectoralis Rondani, 1863

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 3.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ America meridion. [South America]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Aphritis a Phalacromya ): Volucella pectoralis Rnd., Amer. mer. [= South America] / M. Zool. N° 11213 / ♂; 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Aphritis a Phalacromya ): ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Copestylum pectorale ( Thompson et al. 1976: 81) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 3) described both sexes of Volucella pectoralis without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 31) listed two MZUN specimens numbered “611”. We also found two syntypes in this study.

MZUN

Museo Zoologico di Universita degli Studi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Volucella

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Copestylum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Volucella

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