Volucella alpicola Rondani, 1857
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981915 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FEDC-FEBA-5889-FF1BFAE56361 |
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Volucella alpicola Rondani, 1857 |
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Volucella alpicola Rondani, 1857
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 29 (key), 32 (description).
TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Alpibus Insubriae [Insubrian (= Lombardy, Italy) Alps]” .
TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♀♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 1): Volucella Gffr. / alpicola Rnd., Alpi / 22; 1 ♂, syntype (missing both hind-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Volucella R. alpicola Rnd. Alpi / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 3, posiz. B-1 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Volucella bombylans (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Peck 1988: 128) .
REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 32) described both sexes of Volucella alpicola without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ masculum ab Equite Truqui … accepi, foeminam fratres Villa … miserunt [I received the male from Mr. Truqui, the Villa brothers … sent the female]”. We found three syntypes in this study.
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Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze |
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Paleontological Institute |
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