Caricea leptosoma Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 146

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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scientific name	Caricea leptosoma Rondani, 1875
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Caricea leptosoma Rondani, 1875 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 429.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo) , Provincia Sarawak [ Bona Fortuna Island , Sarawak Province, Borneo]” ( Rondani 1875c: 421) .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (wings broken, missing left fore-leg) ( MSNG): Borneo, Sarawak, 1865/1866, Coll. Doria / Typus / leptosoma Rond. / Caricea leptosoma n° 20.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Cephalispa leptosoma ( Pont 1977: 512) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 429) described Caricea leptosoma from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 194) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 42) reported the holotype (♂) in the MSNG.