Volucella alpicola Rondani, 1857

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.4981915

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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.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

PI

Paleontological Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Volucella

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Volucella

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Volucella

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