Mallophora alecto Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 55

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4980781

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Mallophora alecto Rondani, 1848
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Mallophora alecto Rondani, 1848 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 94.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUN: Box Asilidei A 05, 05): Mallophora alecto Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11040 .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Martin & Papavero 1970: 72); junior synonym of Mallophora robusta ( Wiedemann, 1828) View in CoL ( Artigas & Angulo 1980: 97, Papavero 2009: 41).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 94) described Mallophora alecto 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 and received from G. Mussino. Costa (1866: 36) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “796”. Artigas & Angulo (1980: 98) reported the type of this nominal species as probably lost. We found one syntype in this study. The subsequent spelling “ aleto ” has been used ( Martin & Papavero 1970: 72, O’Hara et al. 2011: 206) but it is not in prevailing usage ( Williston 1891: 92, Kertész 1909a: 209, Hull 1962: 468, Artigas & Angulo 1980: 97, Papavero 2009: 41). Therefore, the original spelling “ alecto ” is to be used and “ aleto ” is an incorrect subsequent spelling. 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.

MZUN

Museo Zoologico di Universita degli Studi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

Genus

Mallophora

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