Volucella testacea Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 275

Volucella testacea Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 67.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] ( Papavero 1973: 343). See Remarks.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Aphritis a Phalacromya ): Volucella testacea Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11211 / ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Copestylum pallens ( Wiedemann, 1830) ( Thompson et al. 1976: 81) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 67) described Volucella testacea from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 31) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “614”. We also found one syntype in this study. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil.