Rhopalomera vittifrons Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 191

Rhopalomera vittifrons Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 81.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 specimen, syntype (sex not determinable, very dirty) ( MZUN: Box Antomidei A 02, 01): Rhopalomera vittifrons Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11438 .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Willistoniella pleuropunctata ( Wiedemann, 1824) ( Steyskal 1967b: 4; Prado & Papavero 2009: 4).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 81) described Rhopalomera vittifrons from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 34) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “724”. We also found one syntype in this study. Rondani (1848b: 81) described this nominal species under the generic name “ Rhopalomera ”, which is an incorrect subsequent spelling of Ropalomera Wiedemann, 1820 or subsequent usage of Rhopalomera Agassiz, 1846 . 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.