Eumerus lejops Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 249-250

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5117251

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scientific name

Eumerus lejops Rondani, 1857
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Eumerus lejops Rondani, 1857 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 87 (key), 94 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus sub-apenninis parmensibus … in Etruria [Parmese sub-Apennine hills … Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 4): Eumerus Mgn / lejops Rnd. , ♂ / 138 / Eumerus amoenus Loew (= lejops Rnd. ), det. M. Daccordi, 1994; 3 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 4): Eumerus Mgn / lejops Rnd. , ♂ / 138.

CURRENT STATUS: doubtful species of Eumerus Meigen, 1822 ( Peck 1988: 165) View in CoL ; junior synonym of Eumerus amoenus Loew, 1848 View in CoL ( Belcari et al. 1995a: 14).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 94) described Eumerus lejops from just the male sex: “ Marem ter legi …, et alterum … D. Piccioli misit [I collected the male three times …, and Mr. Piccioli sent another one to me]”. We found four syntypes in this study.A female numbered “138” in the MZUF (Box 4) is not included in the type series because of its sex .

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Eumerus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Bovidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Eumerus

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