Exorista capillata Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 311

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4982092

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FEFB-FE9D-5889-FF1BFED86345

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scientific name

Exorista capillata Rondani, 1859
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Exorista capillata Rondani, 1859 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 121 (key), 140 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensi , etiam apennino [ Parmese territory, also the Apennines ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one covered with mold, missing right mid-leg, the other slightly moldy) ( MZUF: Box 13): Exorista Mgn / capillata Rnd. / 643; 1 ♂, syntype (covered with mold) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Exorista capillata Rnd. 47 ♂ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. D-17 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Alsomyia capillata ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 223, Pape et al. 1995: 21, Cerretti 2010: 233, O’Hara et al. 2020: 289).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 140) described both sexes of Exorista capillata without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of length. We found three male syntypes in this study. The female syntype is presumed lost.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

PI

Paleontological Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Exorista

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