Cardiacephala podagrica Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 137-138

Cardiacephala podagrica Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 86.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: not found in this study.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Ferro & Marshall 2018: 442).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 86) described Cardiacephala podagrica , without specifying the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. This is one of the few exotic species described in Rondani (1848b) that Costa (1866) did not list as in the MZUN. We could not locate any type specimens of this nominal species during our 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.