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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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scientific name	Volucella pectoralis Rondani, 1863
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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.