Sphixosoma africana Rondani, 1873

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 96

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scientific name	Sphixosoma africana Rondani, 1873
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Sphixosoma africana Rondani, 1873 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 283.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Ansaba [Ansaba ( Eritrea)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype ( MSNG): Bogos , Ansaba, Luglio 1870, O. Beccari / Typus / Sphixosoma africana ♂ / africana Rond. ♂ / Conops africanus Rond. , ♂, O. Kröber det. 1914.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Conops africanus View in CoL (Smith 1980: 513, Stuke 2017: 14).

REMARKS: Rondani (1873e: 283) described Sphixosoma africana from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material received from O. Beccari and O. Antinori. Guiglia (1957: 196) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 34) reported the holotype (♂) in the MSNG. This nominal species was described under the generic name Sphixosoma , which is an “unjustified emendation of Sphyxosoma Rondani, 1856 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 169).

References

Guiglia, D. (1957) I tipi di ditteri di Camillo Rondani e di altri autori appartenenti alle collezioni del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genov a, 69, 193 - 207.

O'Hara, J. E., Cerretti, P., Pape, T. & Evenhuis, N. L. (2011) Nomenclatural studies toward a world list of Diptera genus-group names. Part II: Camillo Rondani. Zootaxa, 3141, 1 - 268. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3141.1.1

Raineri, V. & Rey, A. (1996). Elenco di tipi di ditteri conservati nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale G. Doria di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria , 91, 27 - 64.

Rondani, C. (1856) Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol: I. Genera italica ordinis dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata. A. Stocchi, Parmae [= Parma], 226 pp. + [2] pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8160

Rondani, C. (1873 e) Muscaria exotica Musei Civici Januensis observata et distincta. Fragmentum I. Species aliquae in Abyssinia (Regione Bogos) lectae a Doct. O. Beccari et March. O. Antinori, anno 1870 - 71. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 4, 282 - 294. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 9095

Stuke, J. - H. (2017) World catalogue of insects. Volume 15. Conopidae (Dipter a). Brill, Leiden, 354 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004271845