Calliphoridae (James, 1970)

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 71

Calliphoridae

This worldwide family contains more than 1,300 species ( Evenhuis & Pape 2020), the fewest in the Neotropics where less than 100 species are known ( James 1970). Rondani (1848b, 1850 c, 1851, 1862d, 1863, 1865 c, 1868a, 1873e, 1875c) described five Palaearctic, ten Neotropical, five Oriental and one Afrotropical nominal species in his “ Stirps Muscinae ”. The family Calliphoridae was proposed by Brauer & Bergenstamm (1889). Six of these are currently considered as valid, six as junior synonyms and nine as doubtful or had not been included in any recent catalog ( James 1970, 1977, Pont 1980b, Dear 1985, Schumann 1986, Rognes 1991a, 1991b, Pape et al. 1995, Mac- Lean & González 2006, Kurahashi 2007, Kosmann et al. 2013, Wolff & Kosmann 2016, Velásquez et al. 2017, Evenhuis & Pape 2020). Rondani proposed one new replacement name for species previously described and named by Macquart. Except for two species, which have presumably been lost, the type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is distributed among the MZUF (six), MSNG (six), MZUN (four), MSNC (two), MRSN (two), MSNPV (one), and NHMW (one).