Plecia similis Rondani, 1850

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 63-64

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4980829

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scientific name

Plecia similis Rondani, 1850
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Plecia similis Rondani, 1850 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1850c: 193.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insulae S. Sebastiani [ San Sebastian Island ( Brazil)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MRSN: Box 1755): Plecia Hoff. similis ? Rndn., ♂, Insul. S. Sebasti. G. / Plecia similis Rond. 1850: 193 , Ins . S. Seb. [not original label]; 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Tipulidae - Gen. Sciara a Culex ): Plecia similis Rnd., Ins. S. Sebast. / M. Zool. N° 10889.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Hardy 1966a: 5).

REMARKS: Rondani (1850c: 193) described both sexes of Plecia similis from an unspecified number of specimens received from E. Truqui. Costa (1866: 39) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “934”. Two syntypes were found in this study.

MZUN

Museo Zoologico di Universita degli Studi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bibionidae

Genus

Plecia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bibionidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bibionidae

Genus

Plecia

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