Merodon mucronatus Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 256

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981770

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scientific name

Merodon mucronatus Rondani, 1857
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Merodon mucronatus Rondani, 1857 View in CoL

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

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Pedemontio vel in Liguria [Piedmont as well as Liguria ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (missing head, terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 2): Merodon Fb. Latr. / mucronatus Rndn. / 55 / La Specola Firenze 55 / armipes det. Hurkmans, 1987 / Merodon ruficornis Meigen 1822 , det. Vujić, 2006 / Merodon mucronatus .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Merodon ruficornis Meigen, 1822 View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 173, Belcari et al. 1995a: 16, Radenković et al. 2002: 52).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 60) described Merodon mucronatus from a single specimen: “ Exemplar unicum masculum in collection D. Mussino inveni [I found a single male specimen in Mr. Mussino’s collection]”. Giuseppe Mussino collected both in Piedmont and in Liguria.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

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