Merodon aerarius Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 254

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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scientific name	Merodon aerarius Rondani, 1857
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Merodon aerarius Rondani, 1857 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 53 (key), 60 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in apennino parmensi [ Parmese Apennines ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 2): Merodon Fb. Latr. / aerarius Rndn., Apenn. [= Apennines] / 56 / Merodon aeneus Fabr. , det. Hurkmans, 1987; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 99): Merodon aerarius Rnd. , 364, Apenn. [= Apennines].

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Merodon aeneus Meigen, 1822 View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 166, Belcari et al. 1995a: 16); junior synonym of M. aureus ( Fabricius, 1805) ( Milankov et al. 2008: 1125) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 60) described Merodon aerarius from just the male sex without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ Mares tantum lecti [I collected only males]”. We found two syntypes in this study.