Epalpus rostratus Rondani, 1868

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 308

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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scientific name	Epalpus rostratus Rondani, 1868
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868b: 25.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Prov. Mendoza ( Portezuelo de Bonilla ) [Mendoza Province (Portezuelo de Bonilla) ( Argentina)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 72): Epalpus rostratus Rnd., Am. Mer. [= South America] / [no identification number].

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Guimarães 1971: 65, O’Hara et al. 2020: 832).

REMARKS: Rondani (1868b: 25) described Epalpus rostratu s from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens, from material received from P. Strobel. We found one syntype in this study.