Culex digitatus Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 100

Culex digitatus Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 109.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (missing head, covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Tipulidae - Gen. Sciara a Culex ): Culex digitatus Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 10864.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Trichoprosopon digitatum ( Belkin et al. 1971: 8, Guimarães 1997: 116, Harbach 2018: 40).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 109) described Culex digitatus from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by V. Ghiliani and received from G. Mussino. Costa (1866: 40) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “939”. We also found one syntype in this 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.